Robert Martensen, A Life Worth Living: A Doctor's Reflections on Illness in a High-Tech Era (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 200...
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Evidence-Based Policy Making? - Dumb Things Politicians Say About Health Care Policy
There have been multiple legislative attempts at major health care reform in the US. Typically, such attempts feature considerable public d...
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Will the Current Crises Finally Prompt America to Address How it is Haunted by Corruption and Impunity?
There is one tiny silver lining in the political storm clouds swirling over the US. Some of the issues about which we have been ranting on ...
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Death By A Thousand Clicks: Leading Boston Doctors Decry Electronic Medical Records
Channeling Walter Cronkite, in clinical medicine, when you've lost Boston (including MGH), you've probably lost the health IT war....
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Don't Know Much About Health Care, Health Care Research or Quality - Yet Appointed New Director of Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)!?
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) is a US government agency, part of the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS),...
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New HHS Secretary, rather then singing unabashed praise for EMRs like his predecessors, states the obvious. However, the "solutions" are the usual boilerplate.
In the past, politicians on both sides of the aisle have generally sung unfettered and uncritical praise for electronic medical records and ...
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Through the Revolving Door, Darkly
While the rare appointments to top health care positions by the Trump administration deservedly get considerable media coverage, lower level...
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