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The Slaughterhouse Mentality

Posted on March 19, 2013 1:02 am by dhaugen / 0 Comment

In this crazy world of health care costs where those in CEO seats think health care should be run like the manufacturing industry, it’s rare to find someo...

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Perspective Outside the Box

Posted on November 16, 2012 5:28 pm by dhaugen / 0 Comment

The tension between the practice of science and art has been with us for a long time, but with every new technological advance, the tension ratchets tighter and...

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Computers and Language Translation

Posted on May 20, 2012 11:07 am by dhaugen / 0 Comment

Long before the health care industry became so enamored of electronic medical records, researchers were struggling with the problems of how to enable a computer...

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Technology Drives up Cost of Medical Care (Myth #2)

Posted on April 21, 2012 11:47 am by dhaugen / 0 Comment

In Modern Medicine: What You’re Dying to Know, we talked about the high cost of technology because this was about the time hospitals were jumping on the M...