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A Normal Pregnancy is a Retrospective Diagnosis

By J.D. KLEINKE If every medical specialty has its homily for indoctrinating new members, “a normal pregnancy is a retrospective diagnosis” is the cynical soundbite for obstetrics. It is a patronizing and alarmist statement, meant to distance weary practitioners...

Published Tue, Feb 01 2011 4:55 AM by The Health Care Blog
Direct Project Implementations Take Flight

By RICH ELMORE and PAUL TUTEN The Direct Project has taken off, with the first-in-the-nation production use of the Direct Project for secure direct clinical messaging. Arien Malec, ONC’s Direct Project Coordinator, announced today that pilots in Minnesota...

Published Wed, Feb 02 2011 1:35 PM by The Health Care Blog
Health Care Reform in the U.K. and U.S

By HERBERT MATHEWSON, MD “England and America are two great nations separated by a common language.” -attributed to both Winston Churchill and George Bernard Shaw In 1965 I spent the summer of my third year in medical school at the... Read More...

Published Thu, Feb 03 2011 6:51 AM by The Health Care Blog
Shaw Got It Right

By PAUL LEVY George Bernard Shaw wrote The Doctor's Dilemma, Preface on Doctors in 1909. It is fun to read some excerpts: It is not the fault of our doctors that the medical service of the community, as at present... Read More...

Published Fri, Feb 04 2011 6:12 AM by The Health Care Blog
You're Sick. I'm Not. Too Bad.

By ELAINE SCHATTNER, MD There’s a popular, partly true, sometimes useful and very dangerous notion that we can control our health. Maybe even fend off cancer. I like the idea that we can make smart choices, eat sensible amounts of... Read More...

Published Mon, Feb 07 2011 4:35 AM by The Health Care Blog
Going Beyond the Dartmouth Debate

By MAGGIE MAHAR We all have heard that “spending more” on health care does not necessarily lead to better care. In fact, in regions of the country where care is more intensive and more expensive, sometimes outcomes are worse. This... Read More...

Published Mon, Feb 07 2011 4:37 PM by The Health Care Blog
OrganizedWisdom storms the waiting room!

By Matthew Holt OrganizedWisdom is one of the more innovative Health 2.0 content and search companies, and the dynamic duo of Steven Krein and Unity Stoakes just pulled off an interesting coup by getting OW's wisdom cards into the ubiquitous... Read...

Published Thu, Feb 10 2011 1:21 AM by The Health Care Blog
A Game-Changing Statistic: 1 in 250

By BOB WACHTER, MD Although the medical profession has been harming unlucky patients for centuries, the patient safety movement didn’t take flight until 1999, when the Institute of Medicine published its seminal report, To Err is Human. And that report...

Published Fri, Feb 11 2011 6:59 AM by The Health Care Blog
Third Place Health Care

By EVAN FALCHUK Media reports on misdiagnosis continue to mount. A recent study on patients with Alzheimer’s found that half had been misdiagnosed. Half. Another headline blared “4 out of 10 patients being misdiagnosed.” The article encouraged patients...

Published Mon, Feb 28 2011 12:18 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Patients, Front Page, Evan Falchuk, Starbucks

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A Normal Pregnancy is a Retrospective Diagnosis

Direct Project Implementations Take Flight

Health Care Reform in the U.K. and U.S

Shaw Got It Right

You're Sick. I'm Not. Too Bad.

Going Beyond the Dartmouth Debate

OrganizedWisdom storms the waiting room!

A Game-Changing Statistic: 1 in 250

Third Place Health Care