Advocates for Evidence-Based Health Policy Speakers
Category: OP/notes
A Policy Prescription for 2013
My prescription for health reform expands on the themes of tax reform, Medicaid, and physicians’ annual adventures with their own congressionally imposed fiscal cliff. Dysfunction and partisan bickering in Washington, DC has led to the nation approaching and plummeting off Continue Reading …
Guns & Suicide
The recent tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut has many questioning issues as far ranging from gun control to access to mental health services. A paper published in the America Journal of Public Health (January 2013) details the Continue Reading …
Guns & Homicide
Firearm availability and homicide rates across 26 high-income countries. BACKGROUND: Among developed nations, the United States has the highest rate of civilian gun ownership, and the highest homicide rate. We examine whether the United States is merely an exception, or if a relationship between gun Continue Reading …
How would you fix the health care system?
I was working in the ER this weekend when one of the nurses asked me a simple question: “How would you fix the health care system?” Obviously, this is a complex problem requiring complex solutions, but in an environment where Continue Reading …
[Anecdotes] Chicken Soup for the Cold
One of my doctor friends and I were talking the other day about her cold symptoms – stuffy nose, nasty mucous, facial congestion. No fever. It had only been going on a couple of days but she said to me: Continue Reading …
You must be logged in to post a comment.