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No Health Care Fix Even Possible?

bbibenefits wrote 6 days ago: Dr. Atul Gawande is a brilliant guy.  He wrote an article in the New Yorker about McAllen County, Te … more →

Tags: Policy Matters, health-care reform, Hlthcare Misconceptions, Legal Matters, Transforming Health Care, health insurance cost, Healthcare Reform, health care cost control, healthcare cost control

Readings in Health Care: U.S. Doctor Presses Need to Catch Up to 19th Century Medicine

Charles Bosdet wrote 2 months ago: “The Checklist; If something so simple can transform intensive care, what else can it do?, … more →

Tags: Comparisons, Health Care, Health care results, United States health care, Checklists, Cleanliness, Healthcare, hospitals, ICU

Health Care We Want to Pay For4 comments

David Morf wrote 2 months ago: I made a change to this post.  Here’s why—I left out the word “training” in the pa … more →

Tags: Semantics, alert, Asheville, Banking, competitive, Healthcare, HMO, Overutilization, payout

Harvard Magazine on Atul Gawande

by Tinker Ready wrote 3 months ago: In my struggle to earn a  living as an independent journalist, I often wish I had a day job. But, ma … more →

Tags: Writing about health and medicine, writing about healthcare, Harvard Medical School, The New Yorker

Book Reviews...

marklaw wrote 4 months ago: Bovver Book... Why are some of the most useful books in the world also the toughest reads? My theory … more →

Tags: Book Reviews, Innovation, Health Care, LinkedIn, Professions, Book Review, better, ATUL, Mark Law

Better by Atul Gawande

marklaw wrote 6 months ago: This wonderful book provides a fascinating take on improvement – a key topic for clients and c … more →

Tags: Book Reviews, Innovation, Health Care, Book Review, better, ATUL, Mark Law

Doctors complain about ethics oversight - just like anthropologists! (well, almost)4 comments

llwynn wrote 1 year ago: I have been working on an ethics teaching module and just came across this December 2007 editorial i … more →

Tags: Anthropology, ethics, Health & Illness, ORHP, Informed Consent, Quality Improvement, Medical Anthropology, Johns Hopkins, Helsinki declaration

A brush with the US Health Care System: one man's confession.2 comments

Tom wrote 1 year ago: I talk the talk about health care. Do I walk the walk? Here’s the talk: the US approach to hea … more →

Tags: Who needs science?, Good Books, Science Policy, Medicine, good public communication of science, navel gazing, Emergency Care, Health Care Costs, Systems

Dr. Gawande- redux1 comment

aegis1 wrote 1 year ago: The December 30 New York Times has an opinion column by Dr. Gawande. In the article Dr. Gawande expr … more →

Tags: Alternative Medicine, attending, Medical error, medical testing, office of human research protection, hhs

Atul Gawande, MD, MPH

aegis1 wrote 1 year ago: Occasionally I find something that makes so much sense and is so intuitive that I whack myself on th … more →

Tags: attending, Medical error, medical testing, Medication, Safety, Testing, pronovost, Checklist, Judgement

The power of the list: managing "extreme complexity"

Charles Batchelor wrote 2 years ago: “Intensive-care medicine has become the art of managing extreme complexity—and a test of whether suc … more →

Tags: Parenting, Marketing, Checklist, Peter Pronovost, New Yorker

Looking at the Value of the Apgar1 comment

remarkabelle wrote 2 years ago: Click for PDF of “BDM Term Paper- Apgar Scoring” … more →

Tags: decision science, Virginia Apgar, Apgar Score, Apgar for Surgery, EBM, Papers

Gawande and Kristof

mgpaquin wrote 2 years ago: Dr. Gawande says the ultimate measure of leadership is to take a health plan and persuede people to … more →

Tags: kristof

Gawande and Herbert

mgpaquin wrote 2 years ago: Dr. Gawande looks at the health care news from the four weeks he’s been a guest columnist, and … more →

Tags: Herbert

Gawande and Kristof1 comment

mgpaquin wrote 2 years ago: Dr. Gawande on rethinking old age, and Mr. Kristof says that China has thrived thanks to “trad … more →

Tags: kristof

Gawande and Herbert

mgpaquin wrote 2 years ago: Dr. Gawande does a piece on sex ed, with the four facts that everyone needs to know about sex and co … more →

Tags: Herbert

Gawande and Kristof1 comment

mgpaquin wrote 2 years ago: Dr. Gawande points out that most doctors feel a moral obligation to treat the poor and says it … more →

Tags: kristof

Gawande and Herbert

mgpaquin wrote 2 years ago: Dr. Gawande is concerned about how bad medicine and medical products creep in, driving out good medi … more →

Tags: Herbert

Gawande and Kristof

mgpaquin wrote 2 years ago: Dr. Gawande has some ideas on curing the health care system, and Mr. Kristof explains what will moti … more →

Tags: kristof


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