Novice to Expert
The novice-to-expert yellow brick road has been examined form many perspectives, including the nursing perspective. Having been pretty hard on nurses in “...
Category: evidence-based medicine
evidence-based medicine/patient-centered care/physician-patient relationship/separation of church and state/simplistic solutions to complex problems
Distrust of the System
The fear of vaccinations for children has been with the U.S. health care system for many years. Indeed, Michael C. Dorf reminds us: “Skepticism of orthodox medi...
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...
