Health Care Thoughts: Physician Burnout
by Tom aka Rusty Rustbelt Health Care Thoughts: Physician Burnout During the years I worked every day with physicians I learned a great deal, including about the time pressure, the…
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Health Care Thoughts: Hospitals Rising
by Tom aka Rusty Rustbelt Health Care Thoughts: Hospitals Rising One of the key operational themes of PPACA (Obamacare) is integration. Almost all models of integration have a hospitals or…
Health Care Thoughts: Re-admissions, Resident Rights and Pie
by Tom aka Rusty Rustbelt Health Care Thoughts: Re-admissions, Resident Rights and Pie A follow up to a post on evidence based medicine…. PPACA is putting extreme pressure on hospitals…
Health Care Thoughts: Evidence-based medicine not easy
by Tom aka Rusty Rustbelt Health Care Thoughts: Breast Cancer Battle Evidence-based medicine may not be as easy as it first sounds. An opinion piece in the British Medical Journal…
Health Care Thoughts: Cardiologists Gone Wild
by Tom aka Rusty Rustbelt Health Care Thoughts: Cardiologists Gone Wild I have been waiting……. for a major federal investigation into unnecessary cardiology interventions. According to the NYT a major…
Health Care Thoughts: The Deloitte Survey
by Tom aka Rusty Rustbelt Update 7/26: The Deloitte link is working: http://www.deloitte.com/view/en_US/us/Insights/centers/center-for-health-solutions/21c1f310fb8b8310VgnVCM3000001c56f00aRCRD.htm. Health Care Thoughts: The Deloitte Survey The annual employers survey by Deloitte (Big Four CPAs) has caused…
Health Care Thoughts: Employer Responses
by Tom aka Rusty Rustbelt Health Care Thoughts: Employer Responses The Urban Institute and the Robert Woods Johnson Foundation published a paper (October 2011) about the potential responses of employers…
Health Care Thoughts: Crazy like Foxes
by Tom aka Rusty Rustbelt Health Care Thoughts: Crazy like Foxes? Several governors are announcing they will not begin building the state health exchanges required by PPACA (Obamacare). Some of…
No Healthcare Ruling—But Three Other Very Important Rulings—Today
The Court will announce its healthcare ruling on Thursday. Tom Goldstein, founder of Scotusblog, said after this morning’s opinions were issued that, in light of the Court’s informal division-of-labor routine,…
Is Barack Obama Morphing Into Dick Cheney?
…Klare, Tom Dispatch re-posted with permission from the author Is Barack Obama Morphing Into Dick Cheney? Four Ways the President Is Pursuing Cheney’s Geopolitics of Global Energy As details of…