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Lisa Gualtieri: Must waiting be inherent to medical care?
This guest post by Lisa Gualtieri originally appeared in the author’s health blog. “By the time you see the doctor, you’re either dead or you’re better,” my mother-in-law told me. She had to have multiple tests, all with long waits to get the appointments and the results, before her health insurer would allow her to [...]
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What would a checklist for patients look like?
This springs up from a Twitter discussion this morning. It’s Atul Gawande’s fault, for his book “Checklists.” :-) Forward-thinking clinicians are doing it; participatory patients should to. Let’s get to work.
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US Health Care Reform: A Contemporary Example of
Goodhart’s Law?
Goodhart’s law – named after a former chief economist of the Bank of England – says that whatever social or economic indicator or other surrogate measure you adopt as a financial target ceases to be a relevant target once you have adopted it because it loses the information content it had originally. What is the [...]
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e-Patients Are Proud Deviants!
The wonderful Atul Gawande delivered this past Friday a commencement address, titled “Money,” to the graduates of the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine. He touched on and expanded on the theme of his groundbreaking article “The Cost Conundrum” that was reviewed on this site. The transcript of the commencement address is definitely worth reading because [...]
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