Seven Myths of Health Care Financing
When we wrote Modern Medicine: What You’re Dying to Know all those years ago, we concentrated on explaining how we thought health care costs had been forc...
Category: health care reform
So What’s a Treating Physician Anyway?
When I choose to call this blog “The Treating Physician,” I was attempting to remind readers that health care decisions should be the province of the patient an...
Surveys, Smurveys: Who do They Think They’re Kidding?
In my statistics class many moons ago, we were taught that as statistical measures, surveys were at the bottom of the heap of ways to establish meaningful evide...
Comparative Effectiveness Research
Much of the loud clamoring about the recently passed stimulus health-care provision targets “comparative effectiveness research.” Steven Pearlstein ...
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Restricting Drug Access
Dr. Scott Gottlieb’s title of his op-ed column in The Wall Street Journal, “Congress Wants to Restrict Drug Access,” is misleading, not by wha...
