Day: November 23, 2011

Don Berwick resigns

Per the WaPo. Not a surprise, but disappointing still. Can any academic to the left of Mark McClellan get confirmed at HHS?    

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Hubbard in WSJ

Glenn Hubbard (who was chair of the Council of Economic Advisors for President Bush II) has a piece in today’s WSJ that proposes how to

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This is not your father’s JAMA

As any reader of this blog knows, we are completely in favor of trying to drag the medical research establishment into the twenty-first century. There

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Turkey does NOT make you sleepy!

This may be my favorite medical myth, and it’s totally appropriate for the upcoming holiday. Happy Thanksgiving! While not everyone stoops to the level of Seinfeld’s

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Reflex: November 23, 2011

The CDC reports on physician assistant and advance practice nurse care in hospital outpatient departments: United States, 2008–2009. “Hospital outpatient department visits attended only by physician

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Private insurers and ACOs

If you’re looking for a thorough description of all things ACO, check out the recent publication by Robert Berenson and Rachel Burton (ungated). Included in it

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