Video Introduction to Critical Decisions

Byadmin September 5, 2012

Want a sneak peak into why I wrote Critical Decisions? Take a look at this 5 minute video. Feel free to send links to all your friends, so they won’t fall behind the times!

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Out of Control Physicians: Too Many Doctors Doing Too Many Things to Too Many Patients
Byadmin July 22, 2016

My father is 92 years old, and I am beginning to wonder whether the best thing for his health would be to stay away from doctors. That’s because well intentioned physicians often expose their elderly patients to harmful and unnecessary services out of habit. That’s certainly the message I absorbed after reading a recent issue…

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Ethics | Health Care Cost

Do Oncologists Lie to Their Patients About Their Prognoses?
Byadmin February 7, 2013

Andrews was easily the most anxious patient I took care of that month, a gray Michigan February (is there any other kind?) which I spent in the hospital caring for patients admitted to the general medical ward at the Ann Arbor Veterans Affairs Medical Center. (Andrews is a pseudonym, as are all the patients I blog about, unless…

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Critical Decisions | Ethics | Health & Well-being | Health Care Cost

Angry Your Doctor Won’t Tell You What That Test Costs? You Should Be!
Byadmin August 20, 2019January 6, 2020

Steve B. wasn’t going to be fooled twice. He’d recently seen an ear, nose, and throat specialist for a “tickle in the throat” that wouldn’t go away. He’d forked over a co-pay at check-in, but then the doctor said he needed “to put a scope down there” and check his throat. He later received a…

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Health Policy

Higher Health Insurance Deductibles, Smaller Wallets
Byadmin February 26, 2013

With health care costs rising, employers (and insurance companies) are increasingly asking consumers (aka “patients”) to have more “skin in the game”—to pay more out of pocket for their medical care. The Kaiser Family Foundation has a nice report on trends in health insurance deductibles. This picture shows the rise in these deductibles. That means:…

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Health Care Cost

Why Poor People Like Hospitals
Byadmin September 17, 2013

Healthcare markets are complex and confusing places. But one fact is simple and straightforward: all else equal, hospitals and emergency departments are a lot more expensive than outpatient clinics. Which makes it all the more bewildering that so many low income patients prefer hospitals over primary care clinics. Bewildering until now. Shreya Kangovi and colleagues…

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Health Care Cost

Who Pays Your Oncologist?
Byadmin May 31, 2012

A recent economic analysis concluded that patients with metastatic cancer value their treatments significantly more than regulators recognize, with many expensive new therapies looking like veritable bargains to most patients.
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Video Introduction to Critical Decisions

Out of Control Physicians: Too Many Doctors Doing Too Many Things to Too Many Patients

Do Oncologists Lie to Their Patients About Their Prognoses?

Angry Your Doctor Won’t Tell You What That Test Costs? You Should Be!

Higher Health Insurance Deductibles, Smaller Wallets

Why Poor People Like Hospitals

Who Pays Your Oncologist?

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