April 23, 2008
Commentary by Vlad Fridman MD, PGY-3
On July 30, 1965, then president Lyndon B. Johnson signed into law an amendment to the Social Security legislation establishing a national health care program for the elderly called Medicare. In fact, at the signing,…
April 2, 2008
Commentary by Zackary Berger MD PhD, PGY-2, Health Care Policy Section Editor
Medical protocol and consent on trial in the New York Supreme Court.
In 2004, while working at a construction site, Brian Persaud was hit in the head by a large…
January 18, 2008
In this series, we are trying to cut through some of the media hype in order to summarize the health care proposals put forward by the leading candidates for President.
Commentary by Aaron Lord MD, PGY-1
Our third post presents the plans…
January 8, 2008
In this series, we try to cut through some of the media hype and summarize the health care proposals put forward by the leading candidates for President.
Commentary by Aaron Lord MD, PGY-1
With the New Hampshire primaries upon us, there’s no…
January 2, 2008
Welcome to the first post of our newest series. In this series, we’ll try to cut through some of the media hype and summarize the health care proposals put forward by the leading candidates for President.
Commentary by Aaron Lord MD,…
September 26, 2007
Commentary by Sandeep Mangalmurti MD, JD PGY-2
“Pay-for performance” is the broadly encompassing term used to describe recent efforts to restructure physician compensation so that rewards are commensurate to performance. Initially limited to small pilot programs, pay-for-performance has rapidly expanded over the…
September 18, 2007
Commentary by Zackary Berger MD PhD, PGY-2
A recent article in the New York Times publicized changes in Medicare subsidies. In the article’s own words, “Medicare will no longer pay the extra costs of treating preventable errors, injuries and infections that occur…
September 6, 2007
Commentary by Sean Cavanaugh MD, Associate Editor, Clinical Correlations
Most doctors are aware that Domestic Violence, or Intimate Partner Violence (IPV), is a serious health care issue, but the statistics are still startling to most of us. Some surveys have reported…
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Posted in Ethics, Healthcare Policy
August 9, 2007
Commentary by Zackary Berger MD PhD, PGY-2
In the political arena, reforming health care is continually a major domestic issue. It’s no surprise that the lead 2008 democratic contenders cite the same statistic on each of their websites, “Nearly 45 million…
June 14, 2007
Commentary by Vlad Fridman MD, PGY-2
$50,000. This is the price of a new (and cheap) model BMW, and also a price the US government is willing to spend to prolong your medically trained (or everyone else’s for that matter) life…
June 12, 2007
Welcome to our first blog commentary. One of the purposes of the blog is to generate discussion about issues in health care. This “Clinical Commentary” section is an invitation to our housestaff and faculty to submit their own thoughts and viewpoints on current issues.…
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Posted in Endocrine, Healthcare Policy, Pharmacology
March 21, 2007
The debate about the ethically questionable relationship between physicians and the pharmaceutical industry opened up again this morning on the front page of the New York Times. Although the article is heavy on interview and anecdote and a little short on…
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Posted in Breaking News, Healthcare Policy