January 2010
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December 2009
6 posts
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Doctors No One Needs
Excellent opinion piece in the NY Times. The authors are very much on point.
Doctors No One Needs
By SHANNON BROWNLEE and DAVID GOODMAN
Published: December 22, 2009
FOR anyone who has had to wait a long time to schedule a medical appointment, it might seem as if the world needs more doctors, and that training more of them would be a good idea. An amendment that teaching hospitals are pushing...
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BBC World Service Newshour Radio
Excellent series this week on BBC Newshour. A series of interviews comparing healthcare in the US and in some countries in Europe.
Check it out online at BBC World Service site. I’ll upload the audio files later if the links go down.
Truly worth a listen.
What's the real cost? →
I dig the website. I dig the subversive vibe. But I hate how slow it runs on my browser…
Moreover, it’s got me a little confused. A cool website developed by an insurance company to spur on a discussion on health care and encourage transparency regarding costs and care?
F-me, I’ve been co-opted!
Family physician cuts out the middlemen, insurance...
By: Kristin Tillotson, Star Tribune (Minneapolis)
MINNEAPOLIS — Dawn Streitz walked into an art gallery to get her blood pressure checked.
She wasn’t confused. The gallery is attached to her doctor’s office, a converted storefront in a northeast Minneapolis industrial building where Dr. Sam Willis has launched an experiment in practicing primary-care medicine.
In art terms, you might say...