Physician, heal thyself – obesity edition
Aaron Carroll January 10, 2013
My hatred of residency is well documented. I was overworked, depressed, and miserable. I was also overweight. Both my wife and I were at our
My hatred of residency is well documented. I was overworked, depressed, and miserable. I was also overweight. Both my wife and I were at our
Responding to my questions about psychiatric readmissions, Benjamin F. Miller, Director of the Office of Integrated Healthcare Research and Policy in the Department of Family Medicine at the University
After the NFIB decision in June, Maine tried to expand Justice Roberts’ remedy to also make the “maintenance of effort” provision optional for states. Maine
Apart from cognitive impairments, the rate of decrease in functional limitations among the elderly has moderated. H. Stephen Kaye concludes that this flattening of trends
There are thousands of clinical practice guidelines authored by hundreds of medical groups. Clearly criteria for culling are needed. Consider, for example, the Institute of
Whenever I write about physician prescribing behaviors, especially in preference sensitive areas, people complain that it’s not the doc’s fault; patients expect or demand certain drugs. Whenever
About one of my psychiatric readmissions posts, a reader wrote me, Your comparison to a readmission for another broken bone seems pretty inappropriate. I don’t
I’ve often put forth my belief that one easy way we could reduce spending is to stop paying for things that don’t work, or more
There’s vastly more economics literature on the effects of hospital market power than physician market power. So, the working paper by Abe Dunn and Adam Hale
… yet another research notebook entry. I’m going to sprint through some older literature on this topic. But before I do, let me make one
From a recent GAO Report. Fig. 2 looks like the US is underspending in prevention & public health, but since the denominator is total health
This might be called the first (stylized) rule of health reform: you can’t make the system a little better in one dimension without harming it