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MITSS: Much-needed support after medical errors
Ten years ago this week, 11/18/99, Linda Kenney was scheduled for ankle replacement surgery. She woke up three days later in the ICU. Her chest had been cut open. She was in the hospital ten days. And nobody talked about what had happened. What had happened is that the nerve block administered to her ankle (a [...]
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Dossia, Microsoft HealthVault & Google Health:
Illegal in NJ?
In the last few days the announcement of a proposed NJ state law has made the Internet rounds. “· On or after January 1, 2011, no person or entity is permitted to sell, offer for sale, give, furnish, or otherwise distribute to any person or entity in this State a health information technology product that [...]
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e-Patients Demand: Put An End To
Data-Hugging Disorder
“Statistics should be the intellectual sidewalks of a society, and people should be able to build businesses and operate on the side of them” This quote from Hans Rosling is part of a speech where he presented the following: Database-hugging disorder (Dbhd): A well known ailment, Dbhd is the statisticians’ tendency to guard their data [...]
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Atul Gawande examines why health costs are high some places and lower others
As soon as you can, stop what you’re doing and devote 20-30 minutes to reading Atul Gawande’s important new article in the June 1 New Yorker, The Cost Conundrum: What a Texas town can teach us about health care. I don’t claim to be an expert about cost issues but in my year-plus of listening [...]
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Dr. Reuben deeply regrets that this happened!
This is the third post in the unfortunate series about conflicts of interest. You must be kiddin’! That’s all Scott Reuben, MD, the doctor Scientific American calls “a medical Madoff“, had to say after putting the last two handful of nails into the coffin of the scientific peer-reviewed process? You see, Dr. Reuben is responsible [...]
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