sound-bite thinking – The Treating Physician

big business medicine/electronic medical records/Medicare "fraud"/simplistic solutions to complex problems/the sound-bite mindset

Medicare “fraud” that isn’t…

Posted on November 15, 2012 10:16 am by dhaugen / 0 Comment

The media is full of Medicare fraud this and Medicare fraud that, but there is little attempt to put anything in context, creating an exceedingly poisonous atmo...

health care reform/physician-patient relationship/simplistic solutions to complex problems/the sound-bite mindset

Demonizing Physicians

Posted on November 13, 2012 11:36 pm by dhaugen / 0 Comment

The disturbing tendency to try to blame all the problems in health care on physicians seems to be escalating, which shouldn’t be surprising considering th...

health care reform/simplistic solutions to complex problems/the sound-bite mindset

Penalizing Hospitals for Readmissions

Posted on November 11, 2012 3:14 pm by dhaugen / 0 Comment

I’ve posted to this blog often about the difficulty in measuring quality in health care: RACS and Quality of Care, Novice to Expert, Computers and Languag...