From The New York Times: When Heart Devices Fail, Who Should Be Blamed? Doctors in a landmark medical device case ask who should be held responsible when a company sells flawed products. http://nyti.ms/9zeb64
September 23, 2009
In this issue, Linzer and colleagues found that family practitioners and general internists report high levels of unhappiness about time pressures and practice pace, little sense of control over work conditions, and deficient organizational culture. Primary care as an indispensable set of functions will persist in one form or another; the challenge is to organize… [Read more…]
December 12, 2006
A recent study (RCT) in Annals of Internal Medicine looks into the effects of multi component intervention on quality of life and clinical depression in caregivers and on rats of institutional placement of care recipients in 3 diverse racial groups.
October 25, 2006
A new study finds disparities in the Utilization of High-Volume Hospitals for Complex Surgery. This is not surprising at all given the fact that complex surgeries cost more and hospitals and doctors do what ever they can to divert the “self-pays” or lower paying patients to other facilities, defer these procedures or make it more… [Read more…]
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