Why It’s Not Time for Health Care Rationing
“Why It’s Not Time for Health Care Rationing” – Hastings Center Report
“Why It’s Not Time for Health Care Rationing” – Hastings Center Report
Shutterstock Death by a thousand bureaucratic demands. That’s how many American physicians currently describe their jobs, with work days that often don’t end until long after their kids go to sleep, when they finally finish documenting their clinical interactions. You see, government regulators and insurance company bureaucrats have been imposing a growing number of quality measurements on…
“Doctor Talk: Technology and Modern Conversation” – The American Journal of Medicine
And the problem is getting worse with time!
I love behavioral science. I love public policy. And I am obsessed with music. So you can see why I think the nudge pictured below may be the coolest thing on the planet! It encourages drivers to drive at an appropriate speed, so they can hear music created by their passage over the road: I…
Here’s a display from an elementary school science fair, cleverly showing how much sugar various beverages contain:
I know, I know: I usually write about health and healthcare; why should anyone care about my opinion on whether Larry Summers should be Federal Reserve Chair? As it turns out, my work on doctor/patient communication has given me insight into the danger of judging job candidates—be they physicians or Federal Reserve chairs—based purely on…