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DrScore.com analyzed 36,000 patient satisfaction surveys submitted to the website in 2011 for its Annual Report Card and found that the
Continue readingEntertaining, Educating, and Criticizing Our Broken Healthcare System for 22 Years
DrScore.com analyzed 36,000 patient satisfaction surveys submitted to the website in 2011 for its Annual Report Card and found that the
Continue readingAnyone else see the conflict of interest with Paula Deen pushing unhealthy food and then making money being a diabetes
Continue readingThere have been reports that some antipsychotic medications used for dementia patients cause a slightly higher increase chance of mortality.
Continue readingThe doctor of the future will give no medicine but will interest his patients in the care of the human
Continue readingThe CDC is urging primary care physicians to talk to patients about ways to lower their sodium intake by about
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Continue readingCreating an effective and efficient healthcare system is not easy. What is interesting to me is that as we try
Continue reading“We have to ask ourselves whether medicine is to remain a humanitarian and respected profession or a new but depersonalized
Continue readingA survey of 202 fourth-year medical students and third-year residents at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago found
Continue readingFor those not keeping up with the times, there is a major drug shortage crisis especially with some cancer or anesthetic medications.
Continue readingNo doctor that I know likes to be graded via “physician satisfaction surveys”. The reason is that it magnifies
Continue readingI grew up in NY and was a fan of the 1986 Mets team that won it all. When I
Continue readingEvery encounter with a physician suggests that doctors are not the recipients of any government largess. Monthly changes and increased
Continue readingIn one of my favorite books, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Robert Pirsig wrote: “Quality is a characteristic
Continue reading“Heart” in the rectum of a CT scan
Continue readingThe Wall Street Journal did a nice piece about how a small California hospital is cranking out the back surgeries
Continue readingA Very Large, Bloated, Governmental Agency MASCOT, Dedicated to Keeping Your Personal Medical Information out of the Hands of Those
Continue readingWe think everything in our medical records is private, but is it? Why do health insurers and life insurers get
Continue readingResearchers at Northwestern University are developing an app that would monitor the frequency of a depressed person’s phone calls, texts and
Continue readingI was sent this interesting article about Vermont’s attempt to start a “single payer” health insurance system. It was written
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