"Medicine is a social science, and politics is nothing else but medicine on a large scale" – Rudolf Virchow
Tuesday September 7th 2010

‘Hospital Care’ Archives

2009 Year in Review

Author : Lisa Maurer, MD Published: December 14th, 2009

To open the year in 2009, Policy Prescriptions suggested a New Year’s Resolution for then [...]

Death Panels…Really?

Author : Cedric Dark, MD, MPH Published: October 8th, 2009

Researchers studied the effects of palliative care consultation on the costs of care for patients. [...]