The Story Space Between Physician and Patient
The healthcare mess just seems to be growing into a what appears to be a bigger and bigger train wreck bound to happen, fueled by the ridiculously black-and-whi...
Category: art of medicine
art of medicine/big business medicine/evidence-based medicine/health care reform/simplistic solutions to complex problems/the sound-bite mindset
The Failure of “Pay for Performance”
In my previous post, I talked about the problems with using “evidence-based” medicine to constrain patient care and avoid dealing with the complexity of ...
art of medicine/big business medicine/electronic medical records/evidence-based medicine/health care reform/physician-patient relationship/simplistic solutions to complex problems
The Flaws in “Evidence-Based” Medicine
These days the moniker “evidence-based” has been attached to almost any statement about the practice of medicine and health care reform. Since a goodly number o...
art of medicine/evidence-based medicine/health care reform/separation of church and state/simplistic solutions to complex problems/the sound-bite mindset
The Illusion of Control
Medicine is not an exact science. There is a large component of art in the practice of medicine, but those who would control the practice of medicine would like...
Top Down and Bottom Up
In the early days of developing expert systems, there was a lot of talk about whether such systems should be built from the top down or the bottom up. The artif...
