Michael Ellenbogen is an academic hospitalist at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago. He graduated from Princeton University, with a degree from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. He attended the University of Virginia for medical school, and did his internal medicine residency at Northwestern. In addition to clinical medicine, he is interested in outcomes research related to medical resource utilization and cost effectiveness of drugs, devices, and procedures.
Oscar Wilde defined a cynic as a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. A cynic might point out that the US health care system is one step beyond this in that often times physicians know neither the price nor value of the services we provide. Or at least that’s […]