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Misimagining the Unimaginable

Byadmin March 18, 2012

“Misimagining the Unimaginable” – Health Psychology

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Great Consumer Reports Article on Our Research
Byadmin March 22, 2016

Donna Rosato, an excellent journalist at CR, as the cool kids call it, just published an excellent article highlighting some of our research on money talk in the doctor’s office. Here is a teaser. A growing body of research has found that as people pay more out of pocket for their healthcare, they’re likely to put off treatment instead of seeking a…

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Another Obamacare Failure: It Wasn't a Job Killer!
Byadmin November 30, 2016

According to many conservative pundits, Obamacare is a job killer. Five days before Obama signed the law, in fact, speaker John Boehner declared that the president was pushing “his job killing government takeover of healthcare that will hurt small businesses.” Years after the law was passed, critics continued trumpeting this theme, Ted Cruz calling Obamacare “the biggest job-killer in…

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Industry Shenanigans?
Byadmin July 6, 2016

I know, I know: correlation does not mean causation. But it is still suspicious that when industry employees join as co-authors in medical journals, the randomized trials they are writing about are more likely to show positive results – results that make industry products look good. At least that was the finding from a study…

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Warning To RFK Jr: Mess With Medicare Payment And Physicians Will Fight Back
Byadmin2 December 11, 2024December 11, 2024

The starting salary of an orthopedic surgeon in the United States is $565,000. Family medicine physicians, by contrast, can expect a starting salary closer to $250,000, a good living by almost any measure, but a pay disparity that doesn’t strike most experts as reflecting the value, or importance, of these two specialties. If Kennedy wants…

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Make Sure Your Doctor Is Treating You and Not Your Blood Tests
Byadmin February 20, 2018

Shutterstock He came to the ER with chest pain, shortness of breath, and atrial fibrillation with a heart rate of almost 120 beats per minute. It wasn’t a heart attack, and it wasn’t some rare disease. He was emergently ill because his physician overreacted to blood tests, and prescribed a thyroid pill he didn’t need….

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Is Peer Pressure to Increase Physician Performance Overrated?
Byadmin October 27, 2017

Shutterstock It has become trendy in health policy circles to believe that behavioral economic interventions are the key to health system improvement. After all, traditional economic interventions like pay per performance have generated underwhelming results, with little or no change in physician behavior. Why not try a non-financial, psychological intervention—like performance feedback! Well, a study…

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Misimagining the Unimaginable

Great Consumer Reports Article on Our Research

Another Obamacare Failure: It Wasn't a Job Killer!

Industry Shenanigans?

Warning To RFK Jr: Mess With Medicare Payment And Physicians Will Fight Back

Make Sure Your Doctor Is Treating You and Not Your Blood Tests

Is Peer Pressure to Increase Physician Performance Overrated?

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