Thứ Tư, 18 tháng 8, 2010

How the Fallacy of the "Perfect" Health Care Market Undermined Professionalism and Caused Health Care Dysfunction - in the New York Times

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We began this blog way back in 2005 to discuss threats to physicians' values, especially from concentration and abuse of power.  Persona...
Thứ Ba, 17 tháng 8, 2010

"Proprietary Information," Confidentiality Motions, and the Anechoic Effect; the Case of the Contaminated Heparin

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The case of the deadly contaminated heparin sold by Baxter International has received much less attention than seems warranted given its hum...
Thứ Hai, 16 tháng 8, 2010

St. Vincent's Goes Bankrupt, Executives Earn Millions

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St. Vincent's Hospital in the Greenwich Village section of New York City was a landmark institution which filed for bankruptcy in April,...
Chủ Nhật, 15 tháng 8, 2010

EPIC's outrageous recommendations on healthcare IT project staffing

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"Critical thinking always, or your patient's dead" - Victor Satinsky, MD, NSF-funded summer science training program (SSTP) fo...
Thứ Sáu, 13 tháng 8, 2010

Being a Health Insurance Executive Means Never Being Able to Say You Are Sorry

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WellPoint, the largest US for-profit health care insurance company, has provided a steady stream of examples of poor management and bad beha...

A Golden Parachute for Making Contaminated Drugs?

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In late 2009, we posted about problems at a Genzyme plant that manufactured some fabulously expensive drugs, e.g. Cerezyme whose cost to pa...
Thứ Tư, 11 tháng 8, 2010

Deceptive Marketing, For-Profit Universities, and Health Care Education

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Last week, reports about deceptive marketing and other questionable practices used by the growing for-profit higher education industry in th...