Explicit v. implicit rationing

The publication of the American College of Physicians ethics manual has garnered lots of comment. Aaron has weighed in with two posts and the comments

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On The Record (with daily recap)

CBO: ARRA spending 2009-11 quite close to CBO original estimate BPP: Estate Tax: Myths and Realities Today in TIE: Austin goes over Medicaid doesn’t make

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The Price is Right

Shilpa Iyer in the Health Care Blog has a post on an interesting idea to try and teach Resident Physicians the cost of the care

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Commentaries on home movies

This is absolutely the funniest thing I’ve seen in some time. Two brothers (one a comedian and one a filmmaker) have taken some old home

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Paying for things that work

I’ve received a number of emails about Ezekiel Emanuel’s and Steven Pearson’s op-ed in the NYT on Monday. I admit, part of the reason I haven

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Clinical Crossroads

So JAMA, one of the most prestigious medial journals in the world, has a feature called “Clinical Crossroads”. They will present a case, along with pertinent information,

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Who owns the MMSE?

Eric Widera has a comprehensive post in GeriPal blog on the attempt by the creators of the Mini-Mental Status Exam (MMSE) to charge physicians for

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