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evidence-based medicine/health care reform/reducing health care costs/simplistic solutions to complex problems

The Whisper Game

Posted on November 21, 2012 11:33 am by dhaugen / 0 Comment

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 ...

health care reform/Medicare "fraud"/physician-patient relationship/simplistic solutions to complex problems

Medicare and Physician Reimbursement

Posted on November 19, 2012 1:22 pm by dhaugen / 0 Comment

When physicians apply to become a “provider” for insurances (that is, are accepted into the provider network, something required before receiving pa...

big business medicine/evidence-based medicine/health care reform/overuse of technology/simplistic solutions to complex problems

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...