Medicine
Primary Care
Dec 23, 2012: Does AAMC have an answer for the primary care shortage? No.
Feb 8, 2013: Creating more family doctors: should we shorten medical school? How?
Mar 19, 2013: Can you be "too strong" for family medicine?
Jun 2, 2013: Primary Care Contributes More than Money....
Oct 13, 2013: The role of Primary Care in improving health: In the US and around the world
Oct 26, 2013: Why do students not choose primary care?
Health Reform
Feb 2, 2013: Kansas, Medicaid expansion, and human rights
Apr 21, 2013: Payments for surgical complications: With a scalpel or a meat ax?
May 5, 2013: Medicaid Expansion: Do we care for people or not?
May 26, 2013: Medicaid expansion will leave out many of the poorest: What is wrong with this picture?
Jun 16, 2013: "Call the Midwife": If Britain could afford to create a National Health Service after WWII, we can now!
Jul 21, 2013: Changes in the RUC: None.. How come we let a bunch of self-interested doctors decide what they get paid?
Aug 4, 2013: Why poor people choose ERs: we need a system designed to meet everyone’s needs
Sep 29, 2013: What can we really expect from ObamaCare? A lot, actually.
Nov 17, 2013: Dead Man Walking: People still die from lack of health insurance
Health Research and Evidence
Dec 8, 2013: More on mammography: just because you don't like the results doesn't make research junk science
Jan 12, 2013: Mental Illness and Guns: A public health perspective
Jan 19, 2013: Weight and class: who is obese and why should we care?
Jan 26, 2013: The flu is a virus!
Apr 7, 2013: Research on disparities/inequities, in practices and communities needs much greater funding
Apr 14, 2013: Premature babies and informed consent: we need to do it right
Sep 7, 2013: President Bush's stent: inappropriate screening and care for the rich, nothing for the poor
Medical Education
Feb 8, 2013: Creating more family doctors: should we shorten medical school? How?
Mar 19, 2013: Can you be "too strong" for family medicine?
Jul 7, 2013: Why don't graduate medical education programs produce the doctors America needs?
Oct 26, 2013: Why do students not choose primary care?
Nov 3, 2013: Should Medical School last 3 years? If so, which 3?
May 19, 2013: Keeping immigrants and all of us healthy is a social task
Jun 16, 2013: "Call the Midwife": If Britain could afford to create a National Health Service after WWII, we can now!
Jun 22, 2013: Moving to Recovery By Design (guesy post by Robert Bowman, MD)
Jan 5, 2013: When is the doctor not needed? And who should take their place?
Feb 16, 2013: Creating team based care: are non-physician providers more effectively used in primary or subspecialty care?
Feb 23, 2013: Corruption and Scandal in the NHS: What happens when you introduce private incentives to public services
Mar 2, 2013: Squeezing the needy: a truly flawed financing system for healthcare
Jul 14, 2013: The State of US Health: improved over 20 years, but not nearly enough
Jul 28, 2013: The high cost of US health care: it's not the colonoscopies, it's the profit
Aug 4, 2013: Why poor people choose ERs: we need a system designed to meet everyone’s needs
Aug 10, 2013: Insufficient outrage: is health care about helping people or enriching providers?
Aug 17, 2013: Status Syndrome: an important determinant of health (guest post by Linda French, MD)
Sep 7, 2013: President Bush's stent: inappropriate screening and care for the rich, nothing for the poor
Oct 6, 2013: Critical access hospitals: Worth subsidizing to help save rural America
Nov 10, 2013: Does quality of care vary by insurance status? Even Medicare? Is that OK?
Nov 17, 2013: Dead Man Walking: People still die from lack of health insurance
Nov 23, 2013: Outliers, Hotspotting, and the Social Determinants of Health
Aug 10, 2013: Insufficient outrage: is health care about helping people or enriching providers?
Aug 25, 2013: Physicians' role in controlling health costs: do no financial harm
Sep 1, 2013: Rand Paul on health policy: small brain and no heart
Sep 15, 2013: Competition vs. Coordination in health care: remember the patient!
Sep 22, 2013: Controlling the cost of health care by doing the right thing
Oct 20, 2013: The cost of medical care: bundling tests and blaming the victim
Nov 10, 2013: Does quality of care vary by insurance status? Even Medicare? Is that OK?
Other
Apr 26, 2013: Matthew Freeman Lecture and Awards, 2013
- Controlling The Cost Of Health Care By Doing The Right Thing
The cost of health care and ways to decrease it are a recurring drumbeat in politics, including on this blog. However, I like many others, have also emphasized the need to increase access to necessary health and medical care to all people who need it,...
- Competition Vs. Coordination In Health Care: Remember The Patient!
Two of the most prominent policy recommendations for improving the health care “system” in the US have been increasing coordination of care and increasing competition. Both have very positive aspects, and I have written positively about the potential...
- Hospital Charge Variation And Medicare Equipment Fraud: Two Forms Of Gaming The "non-system"
There has been extensive coverage of the recently published report from the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) that revealed dramatic differences in the prices charged for medical services between hospitals, not only between regions but...
- How Money Influences Specialty Choice
Does it bother anyone that the top billers from the CMS are also specialties that students have chosen for the ROAD? If you don’t remember, I wrote about the ROAD in my November 5, 2013 post “The ROAD less traveled or why don’t med students choose...
- The Road Less Traveled Or Why Don’t Med Students Choose Primary Care?
A recent article in AcademicMedicine by Kimberly Clinite and colleagues (1) is an important addition to the growing body of literature around specialty choice. For those of you who are not familiar with the subject, let me give you a bit of background....
Medicine
Index to Medicine and Social Justice Blog, Year 5, Dec 2012-Nov 2013
Primary Care
Dec 23, 2012: Does AAMC have an answer for the primary care shortage? No.
Feb 8, 2013: Creating more family doctors: should we shorten medical school? How?
Mar 19, 2013: Can you be "too strong" for family medicine?
Jun 2, 2013: Primary Care Contributes More than Money....
Jun 9, 2013: Helping primary care help the health of all of us
Oct 13, 2013: The role of Primary Care in improving health: In the US and around the world
Oct 26, 2013: Why do students not choose primary care?
Health Reform
Feb 2, 2013: Kansas, Medicaid expansion, and human rights
Apr 21, 2013: Payments for surgical complications: With a scalpel or a meat ax?
May 5, 2013: Medicaid Expansion: Do we care for people or not?
May 12, 2013: Hospital charge variation and Medicare equipment fraud: two forms of gaming the "non-system"
May 26, 2013: Medicaid expansion will leave out many of the poorest: What is wrong with this picture?
Jun 16, 2013: "Call the Midwife": If Britain could afford to create a National Health Service after WWII, we can now!
Jul 21, 2013: Changes in the RUC: None.. How come we let a bunch of self-interested doctors decide what they get paid?
Aug 4, 2013: Why poor people choose ERs: we need a system designed to meet everyone’s needs
Sep 29, 2013: What can we really expect from ObamaCare? A lot, actually.
Nov 17, 2013: Dead Man Walking: People still die from lack of health insurance
Health Research and Evidence
Dec 8, 2013: More on mammography: just because you don't like the results doesn't make research junk science
Jan 12, 2013: Mental Illness and Guns: A public health perspective
Jan 19, 2013: Weight and class: who is obese and why should we care?
Jan 26, 2013: The flu is a virus!
Apr 7, 2013: Research on disparities/inequities, in practices and communities needs much greater funding
Apr 14, 2013: Premature babies and informed consent: we need to do it right
Sep 7, 2013: President Bush's stent: inappropriate screening and care for the rich, nothing for the poor
Medical Education
Feb 8, 2013: Creating more family doctors: should we shorten medical school? How?
Mar 19, 2013: Can you be "too strong" for family medicine?
Jul 7, 2013: Why don't graduate medical education programs produce the doctors America needs?
Oct 26, 2013: Why do students not choose primary care?
Nov 3, 2013: Should Medical School last 3 years? If so, which 3?
The Health System and Social Justice
Dec 1, 2012: Gaming the system: Integration of healthcare services can just raise costs, not quality
May 19, 2013: Keeping immigrants and all of us healthy is a social task
Jun 16, 2013: "Call the Midwife": If Britain could afford to create a National Health Service after WWII, we can now!
Jun 22, 2013: Moving to Recovery By Design (guesy post by Robert Bowman, MD)
Jan 5, 2013: When is the doctor not needed? And who should take their place?
Feb 16, 2013: Creating team based care: are non-physician providers more effectively used in primary or subspecialty care?
Feb 23, 2013: Corruption and Scandal in the NHS: What happens when you introduce private incentives to public services
Mar 2, 2013: Squeezing the needy: a truly flawed financing system for healthcare
Jul 14, 2013: The State of US Health: improved over 20 years, but not nearly enough
Jul 28, 2013: The high cost of US health care: it's not the colonoscopies, it's the profit
Aug 4, 2013: Why poor people choose ERs: we need a system designed to meet everyone’s needs
Aug 10, 2013: Insufficient outrage: is health care about helping people or enriching providers?
Aug 17, 2013: Status Syndrome: an important determinant of health (guest post by Linda French, MD)
Sep 7, 2013: President Bush's stent: inappropriate screening and care for the rich, nothing for the poor
Oct 6, 2013: Critical access hospitals: Worth subsidizing to help save rural America
Nov 10, 2013: Does quality of care vary by insurance status? Even Medicare? Is that OK?
Nov 17, 2013: Dead Man Walking: People still die from lack of health insurance
Nov 23, 2013: Outliers, Hotspotting, and the Social Determinants of Health
Providers, Values, and Health
Aug 10, 2013: Insufficient outrage: is health care about helping people or enriching providers?
Aug 25, 2013: Physicians' role in controlling health costs: do no financial harm
Sep 1, 2013: Rand Paul on health policy: small brain and no heart
Sep 15, 2013: Competition vs. Coordination in health care: remember the patient!
Sep 22, 2013: Controlling the cost of health care by doing the right thing
Oct 20, 2013: The cost of medical care: bundling tests and blaming the victim
Nov 10, 2013: Does quality of care vary by insurance status? Even Medicare? Is that OK?
Other
Apr 26, 2013: Matthew Freeman Lecture and Awards, 2013
- Controlling The Cost Of Health Care By Doing The Right Thing
The cost of health care and ways to decrease it are a recurring drumbeat in politics, including on this blog. However, I like many others, have also emphasized the need to increase access to necessary health and medical care to all people who need it,...
- Competition Vs. Coordination In Health Care: Remember The Patient!
Two of the most prominent policy recommendations for improving the health care “system” in the US have been increasing coordination of care and increasing competition. Both have very positive aspects, and I have written positively about the potential...
- Hospital Charge Variation And Medicare Equipment Fraud: Two Forms Of Gaming The "non-system"
There has been extensive coverage of the recently published report from the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) that revealed dramatic differences in the prices charged for medical services between hospitals, not only between regions but...
- How Money Influences Specialty Choice
Does it bother anyone that the top billers from the CMS are also specialties that students have chosen for the ROAD? If you don’t remember, I wrote about the ROAD in my November 5, 2013 post “The ROAD less traveled or why don’t med students choose...
- The Road Less Traveled Or Why Don’t Med Students Choose Primary Care?
A recent article in AcademicMedicine by Kimberly Clinite and colleagues (1) is an important addition to the growing body of literature around specialty choice. For those of you who are not familiar with the subject, let me give you a bit of background....