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McAllen: A Tale of Three Counties

By DANIEL GILDEN Introduction The challenge of constraining costs while maintaining or enhancing the quality of medical care is vividly brought to life by Atul Gawande in his recent widely-read New Yorker essay. The anecdotal evidence presented in the article...
June 25, 2009 in Chronic conditions, Dartmouth Atlas, Medicare, Medicine, Policy, Policy/Politics, prevention | Permalink | Comments (55)

Thomas Kuhn, Health Care Reform and Vascular Disease

By WILLIAM BESTERMANN The puzzle of improving care and reducing costs in American medicine and in vascular conditions (that is, diseases associated with blood vessel metabolism) in particular - these are responsible for 60 percent of all cost - has...
May 24, 2009 in Chronic conditions, evidenced-based medicine, Medicine, Obesity, Policy, primary care, Quality, Science | Permalink | Comments (8)

Medicine's Missing Foundation for Health Care Reform

By LAWRENCE L. WEED & LINCOLN WEED Preface by Michael Millenson: Lawrence L. Weed published a seminal article in the Archives of Internal Medicine on using the medical record to improve patient care back in January, 1971. To give you...
April 28, 2009 in Medicine, Michael Millenson, Technology | Permalink | Comments (12)