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The Majority of Doctors in the Majority of Specialties – Are Experiencing Burnout

Byadmin May 10, 2016

And the problem is getting worse with time!

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Bait and Switch: The Sneaky Way Your Employer Just Passed Healthcare Costs onto You
Byadmin February 28, 2018

Shutterstock If you get health insurance through your job, beware: you might be picking up more of the cost of your medical care than you realize. With increasing frequency, employers are directing their workers to the kind of high deductible, high out-of-pocket insurance plans that leave workers financially responsible for a surprising portion of their…

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Cigarette Smoking Is So 1970!
Byadmin April 24, 2015

I have two reasons for showing you this picture, illustrating the decline in cigarette sales in Germany, France, Japan, Switzerland and the US over the past few decades. First, to show you the decline in cigarette sales in Germany, France, Japan, Switzerland and the US over the past few decades. Second, to encourage those of…

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Pandemics and Overdoses: COVID-19 May Worsen Our Opioid Epidemic
Byadmin November 19, 2020February 13, 2021

The novel coronavirus has decimated our economy at the same time as it has directly threatened our health. As if that weren’t bad enough, the economic damage Covid-19 is causing could have an indirect impact on our health. Consider what we already know about economic downturns and opioid overdoses. A research team led by Atheendar…

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Thoughts on Shared Decision Making
Byadmin April 20, 2016

I recently gave a talk about shared decision making at the annual conference for the National Comprehensive Cancer Network. Here is a nice write-up of that talk. For those of you silly enough not to travel to Florida to hear me pontificate! After listening to the treatment alternatives—surveillance, or active treatment with surgery and radiation—a…

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Is It Fair to Reward Medicaid Patients for Receiving Flu Shots?
Byadmin November 4, 2016

My son was underperforming at school, and I was gently encouraging him to try harder (if gesticulating like an over caffeinated Italian qualifies as gentle encouragement). He could not understand why I was upset: “Dad, most of my friends are doing drugs and engaging in unprotected sex. You should be rewarding me for being such…

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Celebrating Colorful Language
Byadmin March 26, 2015

I realize that I do not have the most focused blog in the world. Some people blog about nothing other than, say, capital punishment or new developments in whiskey. I write about psychology, behavioral economics, ethics, the doctor-patient relationship, health policy, political partisanship… a relatively wide range of things, but topics often linked by the…

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The Majority of Doctors in the Majority of Specialties – Are Experiencing Burnout

Bait and Switch: The Sneaky Way Your Employer Just Passed Healthcare Costs onto You

Cigarette Smoking Is So 1970!

Pandemics and Overdoses: COVID-19 May Worsen Our Opioid Epidemic

Thoughts on Shared Decision Making

Is It Fair to Reward Medicaid Patients for Receiving Flu Shots?

Celebrating Colorful Language

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