Patients' familiarity with brand-name drugs suggests that direct to consumer advertising works. What patients don't realize is that generic drugs may work just as well, and at a lower cost. ...
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National Nurses United says Ohio Hospital Compare is missing important information about patient safety. The union wants people to know how many patients nurses are caring for at one time. ...
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Conflicting reports show that higher hospital costs may or may not result in better outcomes for patients. Sometimes, cost depends on the kinds of patients a hospital services. Sometimes it ...
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The Happy Hospitalist suggests a small alteration in hourly rounding by nurses could help improve nursing and physician satisfaction by "99.99999999999 percent." ...
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Health-care investor Albert Waxman says the need to substantially trim the crippling U.S. health care inflation rate is getting lost in the shuffle and offers six steps to cut costs. ...
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Happy Hospitalist thinks that stickers encourage kids to go to the emergency room. "Perhaps instead of a hospital sticker, children in the emergency room would all get a saline injection ...
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The number of lecture hours in medical school are shrinking, points out third-year student George L. Anesi. The good professor will adjust by teaching the framework -- not just listing ...
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The Happy Hospitalist was determined not to be bullied into ordering an unreasonable therapy for something that wasn't medically indicated. As a result, the patient asked for his name - ...
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Bill Hayes of the Health Policy Institute of Ohio says that while conventional wisdom may assume deep divisions between red and blue states it turns out that, "given opportunities for ...
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Dr. Jeffrey Parks challenges the idea that American is spending too much on health care: "Maybe in America, we don't have so much a health care system as a health ...
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Mainstream medicine is slowly coming around to the realization that patients are getting too much radiation from diagnostic imaging. David E. Williams says that personal health records are a great ...
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Dr. Jeffrey Parks thinks that physicians groups, which are more maligned than ever before, need to take a hint from the group formerly known as the American Trial Lawyers Association ...
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Happy Hospitalist outlines his vision of "lifestyle insurance." He writes: "I want to get rewarded by having my premiums drop and the pool of expenses decline. I want a pool ...
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