What would you do if it were your kid?
Aaron Carroll October 3, 2013
That’s the title of a short Perspective article in NEJM this week: I suppose we’ve all been asked that question: What would you do if
That’s the title of a short Perspective article in NEJM this week: I suppose we’ve all been asked that question: What would you do if
In a paper forthcoming in the Journal of Health Economics, David Johnston, Stefanie Schurer, and Michael Shields explore intergenerational relationships of mental health. It’s positively correlated
The US health system has pervasive quality of care problems. Aaron showed this in comprehensive detail (start here). The famous report To Err is Human estimated
Hospital systems in my area, like hospital systems all over the country, are laying off people. They are also often blaming this on “Obamacare”. This
You can download it here. I don’t have it in my to go over premium support mechanics again, but you can read all about them
A friend sent me this story: At the NIH, Director Francis Collins said about 200 patients who otherwise would be admitted to the NIH Clinical
For all of you who think a government shutdown is no big deal, I beg to differ. I can tell you that medical researchers all
Let me start by saying that I’m not going to discuss the shutdown. It’s my birthday, and I’m choosing not to focus on things that
Last week, in the second hour of Stand Up! with Pete Dominick, Aaron and I discussed an email that had been forwarded to Pete by his
The House of Representatives passed a bipartisan health care bill on Saturday (!) on a voice vote. H.R. 3204 was introduced by House Energy & Commerce
The following is a guest post by Nicholas Bagley, University of Michigan Assistant Professor of Law. So here’s a sad story about medicine and the law.
Another fine chart from the recent paper by Amitabh Chandra, Jonathan Holmes, and Jonathan Skinner: No, this is not an explosion in high energy physics