Medicine
In lieu of a blog post this week, I'm linking to a short 60 Minutes video featuring CBS's Andy Rooney on the problem of excessive subspecialization in medicine. I prefer the term "partialists," a term described on DB's Medical Rants blog as "those who ignore any problem that does not fit their tunnel vision of their purview."
- Universal Health Insurance Or Universal Quality Health Care?
Jonathan Gruber, an MIT economist, has a piece in the January 29 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine entitled “Universal Health Insurance Coverage or Economic Relief – A False Choice”.[1] He clearly delineates the case for proceeding with...
- Opioid Overprescribing: We Have Met The Enemy, And He Is Us
My last Medscape video commentary of 2015 discusses the draft Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guideline for primary care clinicians who prescribe opioids for patients with chronic non-cancer pain. Twice as many people died from overdoses of...
- Guest Post: The Next Generation Of Primary Care Quality Measures
- Steve Martin, MD Nov. 2015 update: Care That Matters published a position paper on quality measurement and health care in PLOS Medicine. Everybody talks about the weather ... but nobody does anything about it." Charles Dudley Warner (1887) Unlike...
- Screening For Hepatitis C And Lung Cancer: Proceed With Caution
Most of my patients don't know (or if they know, don't particularly care) that I blog, but after practicing for nearly three years at the same Washington, DC practice, I am starting to see a few who specifically chose me to be their doctor because...
- "politics Trumped Science": Screening For Osteoporosis
According to the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force's new recommendation statement on screening for osteoporosis, published earlier this week, "By 2012, approximately 12 million Americans older than 50 years are expected to have osteoporosis. One...
Medicine
Andy Rooney on the problem of "partialists"
In lieu of a blog post this week, I'm linking to a short 60 Minutes video featuring CBS's Andy Rooney on the problem of excessive subspecialization in medicine. I prefer the term "partialists," a term described on DB's Medical Rants blog as "those who ignore any problem that does not fit their tunnel vision of their purview."
- Universal Health Insurance Or Universal Quality Health Care?
Jonathan Gruber, an MIT economist, has a piece in the January 29 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine entitled “Universal Health Insurance Coverage or Economic Relief – A False Choice”.[1] He clearly delineates the case for proceeding with...
- Opioid Overprescribing: We Have Met The Enemy, And He Is Us
My last Medscape video commentary of 2015 discusses the draft Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guideline for primary care clinicians who prescribe opioids for patients with chronic non-cancer pain. Twice as many people died from overdoses of...
- Guest Post: The Next Generation Of Primary Care Quality Measures
- Steve Martin, MD Nov. 2015 update: Care That Matters published a position paper on quality measurement and health care in PLOS Medicine. Everybody talks about the weather ... but nobody does anything about it." Charles Dudley Warner (1887) Unlike...
- Screening For Hepatitis C And Lung Cancer: Proceed With Caution
Most of my patients don't know (or if they know, don't particularly care) that I blog, but after practicing for nearly three years at the same Washington, DC practice, I am starting to see a few who specifically chose me to be their doctor because...
- "politics Trumped Science": Screening For Osteoporosis
According to the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force's new recommendation statement on screening for osteoporosis, published earlier this week, "By 2012, approximately 12 million Americans older than 50 years are expected to have osteoporosis. One...