Can We Get There From Here? Fixing The U.S. Health Care System
I know that I promised to stop obsessing about the U.S. health care system mess and get back to hard core endocrinology issues, but I read a very interesting article…
Read moreInterpreting The Results Of Laboratory Studies: Be Careful
A few weeks ago, I read an interesting piece in the New York Times about errors that a national reference laboratory had made in measuring Vitamin D levels. Apparently the…
Read moreImproving Health Care In The U.S.: Putting All The Pieces Together
Looking back at my entries from the past 3 months or so, one might get the idea that I am obsessed with the problems plaguing the U.S. health care system…
Read moreImproving Health Care In The US: Can We Control The Costs?
In my most recent entry about the US health care system mess I focused on ways to improve access to high quality health care. I outlined a plan to achieve…
Read moreImproving Access To Health Care
Now it’s time to get down to specifics. Below, I will outline a step-by-step approach that can get us from point A (where we are now- in a mess) to…
Read moreCan We Attain Universal Health Care Coverage In The US Without Breaking The Bank: Access?
In earlier entries I discussed various aspects of the US health care mess, starting with an overview of the problems (poor access and high costs) and ending with a bit…
Read moreMore On Rationing Health Care: Does The US Ration Other Important Services?
After I posted my last entry (FYI: An Important Newspaper Article About The US Health Care Mess), I got to thinking about the concept of rationing health care- that is,…
Read moreFYI: An Important Newspaper Article On the US Health Care Mess
FYI: An Important Newspaper Article On the US Health Care Mess In my last entry, I began a discussion of the US health care system. I had planned to work…
Read moreDoes Improving Risk Factors After Many Years Of Diabetes Help?
Results from a very interesting and important study were published in this week’s New England Journal of Medicine. The study was entitled “Glucose Control and Vascular Complications in Veterans with…
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