December 2010
13 posts
The ridiculousness of patient advocates
Patient advocates are awesome. But that patient advocacy has become an industry—and that procuring one is among the first pieces of advice upon admission to a hospital—is a flat-out indictment of a healthcare system’s misplaced priorities.
“And two people believing is the start of a congregation. You build a...”
– Kevin Smith
Too much creativity, not enough (common) sense
I like that they pushed the line, they just might have selected the wrong tool to push with; The New York Times:
On its face, it seemed reasonable enough: a bone marrow registry sending recruiters to malls, ballparks and other busy sites to enlist potential donors.
That seems rather vanilla. Here comes the “but:”
But the recruiters were actually flirtatious models in...
Who represented us in healthcare reform? →
jayparkinsonmd:
Hospitals had the American Hospital Association. Doctors had the American Medical Association. Big Pharma had the Pharmaceutical Researchers and Manufacturers of America. More than 1,750 companies and organizations hired about 4,525 lobbyists — eight for each member of Congress — to influence…
We must stop running from fixing primary care
A Minnesota 2020 study “Best Practices: Minnesota’s Highest Value Hospitals” concludes:
While this report concludes that higher spending does not necessarily correlate with better quality, it shows that increasing the primary care labor corresponds to higher value and quality of care.
By taking a holistic approach to medicine, where primary care doctors encourage healthy...
Health as a status symbol...
…may be the best thing that’s ever happened to the concept of health.
As good health is now as important to some consumers as having the biggest, newest or shiniest status symbols, growing numbers of consumers will expect health products and services in 2011 to prevent misery if not improve their quality of life, rather than merely treating illnesses and ailments.
Wellthy, one of...