Here’s a hearty get well soon for Fran Jabara, the guru of entrepreneurship in Wichita, who’s bouncing back from a health setback.
There’s no one in Wichita business wiser or more willing to share that wisdom than Fran, the founder of Wichita State’s Center for Entrepreneurship.
Get well soon, Fran.
Physician Benjamin Brewer in the Wall Street Journal today advocates using the Internet as a safe, efficient way to cover about 20 percent of his routine, in-person office visits, thus eliminating the hassle and inconvenience of visiting a doctor’s office for something relatively minor.
He writes:
I think 20% of my routine office visits could be handled safely and less expensively over the Internet. There is nothing magical about the four office walls that make face-to-face visits superior. Demanding an in-person visit for every little thing is based on tradition and consensus opinion — not science.
How likely are you, as a physician, to try this kind of patient interaction? Do you feel it’s safe and reliable? What about patients? Are they willing to seek routine, simple help through the Internet? I certainly would! The question remains, however, is if insurance companies and the government are willing to reimburse for it.
Here’s a good link to follow oil prices, especially good today on what’s been a fairly wild ride.
Oil opened up almost $2 a barrel, and in the space of an hour gave $3 back. Hopefully, the Wichita stations were too busy refilling pop machines and selling smokes to notice that $2 a barrel rise this morning.
Or else, unleaded will be about $3.65 when we step out the door to go home tonight.