By Lydia Pan
Peer Reviewed
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. After all, it is far better to detect a serious illness before it develops its full harmful potential, or even …
Category: Healthcare Policy
Clinical Correlations
Medicare Part D Price Negotiations
May 1, 2024
By Alison Cline
Peer Reviewed
Let’s Start with a Case…
A 79-year-old man with a history of atrial fibrillation and stroke presents to the emergency department with new focal neurologic deficits in the setting of a …
Questioning the QALY: A closer look at the Quality-Adjusted Life-Year
March 10, 2021
By Nina Shevzov-Zebrun
Peer Reviewed
“How much would I have to pay you to lick the subway floor?”
“How much money would it take for you to wear an inflatable T-Rex costume to school?”
Growing …
Pharmacists: The Optimal Solution to Suboptimal Vaccination Rates
April 5, 2019
By Nishanth Srivaths Iyengar, MD and David M. Oshinsky, MD
Peer Reviewed
Federal agencies such as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) publish exhaustive public health guidelines and …
Healthcare (Or Lack Thereof) in Communist Albania
March 9, 2018
By Mariela Mitre
Peer Reviewed
I was born in the late 1980s, a relatively fortunate time in Albanian history, considering that Enver Hoxha (1908-1985), the most xenophobic communist dictator of the Eastern European …
Burnout- The Hot Topic in Medicine
December 8, 2017
By Monica Gupta, MD and Alice Tang, MD
Peer reviewed
Physician burnout is a phenomenon that is becoming recognized as widespread in both trainees and in practicing doctors. Long taxing hours, insurmountable educational debt, the …
Presidential Politics-How Do the Candidates Healthcare Policies Measure Up?
March 25, 2016
By Ajay Prakash, MD
Peer Reviewed
Discussions about healthcare policy have played a central role throughout the presidential primaries. It is incredibly important for healthcare providers to have an understanding …
What is An Accountable Care Organization (ACO)?
January 25, 2012
By Karen Kan, MD
Faculty Peer Reviewed
Last March, the Department of Health and Human Services released a set of proposed regulations that would govern Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs), bringing ACOs …