our own system
Hi there, I'm Drew Weilage and I'm working to make healthcare better for patients.
This is a blog with links to healthcare goings on, trends, and uncategorized interestingness as well as attempts to filter my own healthcare thinking through essay.
I am greatly aware of my idealistic, naive even, views on a number of topics. But frankly, I think healthcare is in dire need of more of the "what's possible/what could be" type of thinking. I'm greatly protective of my unabashed idealism but always open to reason and discourse about any of it.
This is round two of my blogging life, the first being archived here.
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- Don't Call It Quality
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More care (not equal to) better care
An interesting article on the fallacy of more care = better care. Health Beat analyzes:
I believe that pundits are right when they say that Americans have to learn to scale back on medical care. But I don’t think it needs to be achieved in the same way it was during the days of managed health care—when it seemed that many of the treatment denials were made purely to save money, without consideration about quality of care. An increased focus on learning to communicate risk and benefit effectively and by ramping up the patient’s role in decision-making will be far more important in reducing health care costs than learning to “say no.”
