Health Care Run by Those "Who See the Practice of Medicine as a Set of Economic Transactions," or as a "Moral Endeavor?"

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Health Care Run by Those "Who See the Practice of Medicine as a Set of Economic Transactions," or as a "Moral Endeavor?"

Unknown 3/10/2015 Komentar

Calls are getting louder for restoring medicine and health care as a calling that puts patients first, versus a business that puts money first.  For example, in the conclusion of her opening talk for the 2015 Lown Institute...

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A "PR Pawn" Confounds the Public Relations Burnishing of Texas Health Resources and its CEO

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A "PR Pawn" Confounds the Public Relations Burnishing of Texas Health Resources and its CEO

Unknown 3/06/2015 Komentar

The Ebola virus epidemic in Africa is hopefully winding down.  The uproar, if not panic, over Ebola virus in the US has been eclipsed by the latest  internet craze.  However, we are still learning from the...

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Rideout Hospital, California: CEO Pinocchio on quality of patient care during hospital computer crash

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Rideout Hospital, California: CEO Pinocchio on quality of patient care during hospital computer crash

Unknown 3/03/2015 Komentar

EHRs and other clinical IT are touted as essential to improving safety, among many other benefits.Yet when hospital systems crash, the common refrain by hospital executives to the press, when such stories are reported, is...

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Turn, Turn, Turn - Another Health Care Revolving Door Update

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Turn, Turn, Turn - Another Health Care Revolving Door Update

Unknown 3/03/2015 Komentar

It has been a while since our last revolving door update, so it's time to take another spin.Summary of the Revolving Door Phenomenon Before we get to some cases, though, let me summarize an important article on the revolving...

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Did You Ever Notice?

Did You Ever Notice?

Unknown 3/01/2015 Komentar

To quote the late 60 Minutes curmudgeon Andy Rooney, "did you ever notice" how documentary movies--we could extend this to all sorts of documentation as Lancet does it far better than any American medical journals--on...

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