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Remembering the Tonsillectomy Riots
September 2nd, 2010
By MICHAEL MILLENSON The humble tonsillectomy has been at the center of controversies over practice variation, inappropriate surgery and avoidable harm for decades; indeed, well before the terms to describe those problems were formally articulated. Now, thanks to the recently...
W(h)ither Insurers?
August 31st, 2010
By PAUL LEVY The talk around the country among health insurance companies is that their insurance business is dying. What is happening? First, the consolidations in other industries, resulting in large, multistate corporations, already mean that many companies self insure...
Fun in San Diego next week: mHealth & Healthcamp
August 31st, 2010
By Matthew Holt Next week there’s post-Labor day health care fun in San Diego. The 2nd mHealth Networking Conference is Sept 8-9 and Healthcamp San Diego is the day before (Sept 6). Both are run by good health care friends—Peter...
The Accidental Socialists
August 30th, 2010
By DAVID DRANOVE Over the next few years, the U.S. healthcare system will be in the hands of academics from Cambridge, Massachusetts. New CMS Czar Donald Berwick was a member of the Harvard Medical School faculty. Joe Newhouse, who has...
Running Behind
August 30th, 2010
By ROB LAMBERTS I walk into the exam room and the patient looks up at me with a surprised expression. ”Wow! I didn’t expect to see you so quickly!” I smile and turn around to walk out of the door,...