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: health care reform
electronic medical records/health care reform/overuse of technology/patient-centered care/physician-patient relationship
Useless Access to Patient Data
Patient access to their own health care data has snagged center stage for some time. Now there is a movement to make lab tests directly available to patients. S...
How Much Does a Clinic Visit Cost?
Patients should be able to ask their clinics how much a patient visit costs, but patients should also be encourgaged to put the price of a clinic visit in conte...
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...
