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Nobel Laureate Eric Kandel
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“How to Tell Someone That She Is Dying” – The New Yorker
Nobel Laureate Eric Kandel
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The right to die has played a critical role in the development of the doctor/patient relationship. It was families clamoring for the right to allow their loved ones to die who forced the world to recognize that physicians’ medical decisions aren’t just medical decisions, but involve enormous value judgments. In 1975, Karen Ann Quinlan’s loving…
I recently spoke with a Washington Post reporter about a troubling practice. Physicians convince their patients to sign letters to influence public policies the patients often don’t understand. Here is the beginning of that piece. Check it out: A proposal to sharply cut a drug discount program that many hospitals rely on drew some 1,400…
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“How to Tell Someone That She Is Dying” – The New Yorker
Shutterstock We have a huge healthcare problem in the U.S., spending way more than other wealthy countries, expenses that not only burden state and federal governments, but that also take money out of American pockets. Some people hope that better primary care will reduce U.S. healthcare spending. They point out that a small number of…
I recently blogged about a study showing that the same information, when presented in a graph, is more credible to people. One of my friends pointed out that Monty Python figured this out a few decades ago. “In this graph, this column represents 23% of the population. This column represents 28% of the population, and…