When leaders don't leadI made note last week of the strange silence from our state's largest insurance company, Blue Cross Blue Shield, with regard to the pending antitrust settlement between the Attorney General and Partners Healthcare System.&nbs…Read More
MED QIPS takes off at Georgetown Medical SchoolSelf-styled as "the first-ever club for patient safety at Georgetown Medical School," MED QIPS is up and running! Medical Students for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety have set a goal of raising awareness and fost…Read More
Please, no lawyers in youth soccer!A parent writes to the president of a youth soccer program (names changed):Thank you again for offering to advocate on behalf of my daughter, Mary, who wishes to comply with her pediatrician's advice not to remove the very …Read More
Wachter and Gibson on overuseHere's a superb conversation between two of the world's experts, Robert Wachter and Rosemary Gibson, on the following issue: What is the magnitude of overuse in medicine? And what to do about it. The depth of thei…Read More
Can health care help hire our heroes?I know we all feel gratitude to the men and women of our armed forces and do our best in helping them re-enter civilian society after their tours of duty. One leading program along those lines, run by the US Chamber of …Read More
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