Death by Follow-up Appointment
It’s hard enough to get an appointment with a primary care physician, but when that primary care physician recommends your seeing a specialist, getting that app...
Tag: evidence-based
evidence-based medicine/health care reform/reducing health care costs/simplistic solutions to complex problems
The Whisper Game
Remember the old children’s game of sitting in a circle and passing secrets from person to person and finding out, once the secret had been passed around ...
big business medicine/evidence-based medicine/health care reform/overuse of technology/simplistic solutions to complex problems
Perspective Outside the Box
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...
