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Still Closing the Gap
Equality in health remains an unfulfilled promise and is, in fact, much more complicated now than it was in 1965.
September 11, 2009
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A Touch of Sense
The skilled and prudent clinician will be as important to the future of American medical practice as the hybrid car will be to the American highway," writes Abraham Verghese.
September 08, 2009
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Buying Lunch...and What Else?
The food, drug samples, and other gifts that pharmaceutical companies provide for doctors may be free, but they come at a price.
September 03, 2009
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Love in the Time of Organ Transplants
When post-transplant medication costs more than $1,000 a month, how much of a girlfriend's appeal might be because she comes from a country that provides universal health care?
March 16, 2009
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U.S. Citizens Who Obtain Their Medical Degrees Abroad: An Overview, 1992-2006
Changes in the quantity and quality of USIMGs could affect both the supply and the distribution of US primary care physicians.
March 09, 2009
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The Diabetes Prevention Program: How the Participants Did It
Avoiding diabetes is possible for many--but is the cost of prevention too high?
March 05, 2009
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The Voice on the Other End Of The Phone
There's more than one way for a trained medical interpreter to provide accurate, sometimes life-saving language support.
December 12, 2008
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Price Transparency for Medical Devices
Pricing information can motivate physicians to work with the prices and price variation of medical devices.
December 05, 2008
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On Caring For 'Difficult' Patients
Difficult patients and their frustrated doctors fail each other.
September 25, 2008
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Managed Care Plans' Tiered Networks Lead to Inequities in Care for Minority Patients?
Incentives for patients to see "better-performing" physicians in this one insurer's networks worked as intended.
September 15, 2008
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Disorientation
An immigrant doctor, newly arrived from India, finds that it's the little things that can surprise you.
September 02, 2008
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Stories Beyond the Box
A story from a Taiwanese childhood continues to have a powerful, life-shaping presence in the United States.
August 27, 2008
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Discretionary Decision Making By Primary Care Physicians And The Cost Of U.S. Health Care
Clinical judgment, not clinical guidelines, should be the focus of policy efforts to improve the quality of care and address disparities in spending.
July 07, 2008
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The Disappearing Doctors
Reduced residents' work hours sound fine until the residents--now a legion of shift-worker physicians--are rushing out the door or aren't there.
July 01, 2008
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Disparities in Physician Care: Experiences and Perceptions of a Multi-Ethnic America
If public policies provided minority groups with better insurance coverage and language skills, many of the health care disparities found in this study would be narrowed.
June 19, 2008
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Reducing Racial and Social-Class Inequalities in Health: The Need for a New Approach
Is it possible for the majority of Americans to see that inequality is a corrosive issue that is damaging all of us?
June 05, 2008
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Primary Care: Can It Solve Employers' Health Care Dilemma?
Given primary care's association with reduced costs employers have good reason to prevent its demise.
March 11, 2008
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The Face-Off
Sometimes a strange medical dance takes place between experienced nurses and young doctors as they try to provide patients with optimal care.
March 04, 2008
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The Impact of Medicare Part D on Prescription Drug Use by the Elderly
Evidence from a large retail pharmacy chain suggests that Medicare Part D increased the number of prescriptions used by the elderly and reduced their out of pocket drug spending.
December 12, 2007
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Implementing Evidence-Based Medicine Through Medicare Coverage Decisions
What stands in the way of Medicare's achievement of evidence-based behavior?
November 28, 2007
