Getting Better Health Care – Being wary of treatments that just don’t help
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Our medical care system can accomplish miraculous things. Surgeons can operate on the vessels of the heart, clearing blockages and…
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Getting Better Health Care – Paying for unnecessary care
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Our medical care system can accomplish miraculous things. Surgeons can operate on the vessels of the heart, clearing blockages and…
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Getting Better Health Care – Dealing with difficult physician-patient relationships
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Patients don’t go to doctors to be abused by mean-spirited physicians. Physicians didn’t go into medicine because they don’t care…
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Getting Better Health Care – Is there a better way to improve the health of all Americans?
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There’s near universal agreement that our health care system is in crisis, that it costs too much, and that the…
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Getting Better Health Care – Have we been asking the wrong question?
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There’s near universal agreement that our health care system is in crisis, that it costs too much, and that the…
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Getting Better Health Care – The Physicians’ Declaration of Independence
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The U.S. medical system is characterized by a host of financial arrangements—Medicare, Medicaid, HMO’s and various other forms of insurance—that…
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Getting Better Health Care – The Heart of the U.S. Medical Care Problem
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Medical care quality is not good enough. Medical care costs are too high. What’s wrong with the system? On this…
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Getting Better Health Care – Patients only take half their prescribed medication!
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Last week, we began a discussion of health services research with John Piette, Ph.D., Professor of Internal Medicine at the…
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Getting Better Health Care – Doctors are human beings
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The interaction of a doctor and a patient involves two human beings. Doctors are people who have feelings, biases, and…
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Getting Better Health Care – Vermont’s single payer plan, a way to solve our health care problems?
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Health care systems vary in who pays for the care and who delivers the care. Right now, the U.S. health…