Thứ Hai, 7 tháng 10, 2013

Marketing Bad Health Care Decisions as a New Form of Stealth Health Policy Advocacy

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A remarkable set of video advertisements appeared a few weeks ago that seem designed to frighten people into making bad health care decision...
Thứ Sáu, 4 tháng 10, 2013

Use of Psychological Manipulation of Physicians to Sell Pharmaceuticals: The Drug Representative as "Den Mother"

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We have discussed, most recently here , how marketers of health care goods and services use deception and psychological manipulation to sel...
Thứ Năm, 3 tháng 10, 2013

Words that Work: Singing Only Positive - And Often Unsubstantiated - EHR Praise As "Advised" At The University Of Arizona Health Network

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When clinicians are told to promote a technology in no uncertain terms, that puts a chilling effect on critical thinking and discourse.  In ...
Thứ Tư, 2 tháng 10, 2013

Round and Round Spins the Revolving Door, Unimpeded by "Obamacare," Nor By Those Protesting "Obamacare"

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On this day of government dysfunction in the US, it is time for our latest installment on the " revolving door ," the interchange ...

Another in the "Health IT Crashed, But Patient Care Was Not Compromised" Series - NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde

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We must have health IT to prevent stupid doctors and nurses from making mistakes.  Without it, patients are at the mercy of dreaded Paper Re...
Thứ Năm, 26 tháng 9, 2013

Vested Interests and Their Influence on Physicians- New Understanding from Cognitive and Social Psychology

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Evidence-based medicine proposes patient care decisions based on the best evidence from critically reviewed clinical research, knowledge of...
Thứ Ba, 24 tháng 9, 2013

A Plague of Bureaucrats - Now 10 Per Physician in US Health Care

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There seems to be a reasonable argument that the US health care system is more dependent on the private sector, and in particular the for-pr...