The Risk of High Deductible Plans
A New England Journal of Medicine has come to the conclusion that “high deductibles add to consumers’ financial stress and
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A New England Journal of Medicine has come to the conclusion that “high deductibles add to consumers’ financial stress and
Continue readingWe still have a couple more weeks before April Fool’s, so no, I’m not making this story up. Throw in
Continue readingThere are lessons in here somewhere.
Continue readingFrom the minds that brought you the Placebo Journal. Please share! (Holy crap! Look at the date up top. I
Continue reading“A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.” Ayn Rand
Continue readingA new study in JAMA Internal Medicine found that primary care physicians received an average of 77 inbox notifications a
Continue readingA study in JAMA Pediatrics, attempting to prove that all sunshine is evil, used an intervention consisting of text-message reminders, read-along
Continue readingA new study showed that “Empathic responses to patients’ expressions of negative emotion were associated with decreases in patient anxiety and
Continue readingI was reading at throwaway journal when I came across this gem called the Elephant in the room of dermatology. It
Continue readingThe Star Wars medical parody saga continues! I love these. The opening dialogue here kills me every time I watch.
Continue readingFrom the archive of the Placebo Journal. We were ahead of our time as this is 5 years old.
Continue readingEverything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. C.G. Jung
Continue readingI know this may surprise you but researchers have found that reporting quality metrics is costly and not useful. Yeah,
Continue readingA couple of years ago I wrote about this dude from CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield (can their name getting any longer?). At
Continue readingThe VA’s problem-plagued suicide hotline, created in 2007 to deal with rising numbers of veterans threatening suicides, is in trouble. They
Continue readingIn 1628, the King of Sweden Gustavus Adolphus commissioned the construction of a massive warship, the Vasa, to contend for
Continue readingA long time ago, in a hospital not so far away…a Star Wars medical parody! I love this more than
Continue readingFrom the archives of the Placebo Journal. RIP.
Continue reading“I always prefer to believe the best of everybody; it saves so much trouble”. Rudyard Kipling
Continue readingAs you know, I like to mock the nonsensical terms using by our government as well as our medical governing bodies
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