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Dec 25, 2012

Med School Doesn't Teach This

What new docs need to know and never learned in med school "10 Things Medical School Won't Tell You"  (WSJ, Pub. Oct 14, 2012 by Jonnelle Marte): Read more Tags: learn, medical school, teach, lessons, balance, career, personal life, specialist, primary care, sacrafice Read more articles about: medical training/education
Mar 16, 2012

Diagnostic Coding, the Key to What Ails Ya'

Dr. Andrew Wiesenthal* recommends that we take a hard look at the ICD-10 coding system and consider moving consider moving towards Convergent Medical Terminology (CMT). Read more Tags: diagnostic coding, ICD, CMT, hierarchical, lists Read more articles about: Resources
Dec 11, 2011

Does A Good Doctor Treat A Patient's Economic Aches and Pains?

Doctors are relatively uninformed about health care systems, outcomes research or health care economics, specifically the costs of care and cost-benefit.  Is that a critical knowledge gap? Read more Tags: clinical decision making, outcomes, research, medical economics, health care systems, managed care, practice management, cost-effective, outcome, benefit, value, cost-benefit, equity in access Read more articles about: medical training/education
Dec 11, 2011

Expert Opinions on Health from Harvard

Be Well-Informed From Harvard's Medical School Faculty Read more Tags: prevention, fitness, nutrition, diet, Drugs, heart, exercise, Harvard Read more articles about: Resources
Dec 11, 2011

What are we, some 3rd world country?

Why could the British eliminate the threat of Salmonella in eggs, but WE, the most advanced (ha) country in the world, could not? Read more Tags: corporate profit, public health, vaccine, prevention Read more articles about: Research
Dec 9, 2011

Like global warming; act or take the heat

Stephen Shortell in the September 16th issue of JAMA states: "If health care reform is to succeed this year, compromise isgreatly needed to reach agreement on how to cover the increasedcost of expanding health insurance for all US citizens." Read more Tags: reform efforts, cover the increased cost, expanding health insurance, failure to act now, health care delivery system Read more articles about: Resources