Advocates for Evidence-Based Health Policy Speakers
Hitting the Jackpot
Some physicians will make over 7 times what the average college dropout will earn over a lifetime. Even within medicine there are significant differences in lifetime earnings between primary care, surgery, and specialty care. With the recent Powerball lottery jackpot 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 …
The Global Outcomes Score
Achieving a high quality health care system is the holy grail in medicine these days. A novel way of viewing quality requires analysis of the reduction in risk of severe adverse events expected from health care interventions. We all can Continue Reading …
Why are patients readmitted to hospitals?
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has decided to limit payments to hospitals most likely to have patients readmitted. However, the data suggest that readmissions are best correlated with patient-specific issues. With significant impact on patients quality of life 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 …
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