February 27, 2019

I’ve always told physicians I work with and against: Quit bitching about lawyers – we’re not your real enemy. From KevinMD: Starting with health management organizations, managed care, all the way to the insurance exchange, doctoring has been forcefully wrestled away from physicians only to be placed into the hands of large insurers, administrators and […]

January 28, 2019

Post 2 of 2 on a new patient safety movement inside medicine. Two decades ago, the Institute of Medicine shook the medical profession with its “To Err is Human” report which said nearly 100,000 people a year lost their lives to preventable medical errors. With subsequent reports estimating that the number is likely much higher […]

January 25, 2019

Post 1 of 2 on a new patient safety movement inside medicine. Hospitals and physicians’ offices are supposed to be places that heal. But for more than 200,000 people in the U.S. every year, they are also the cause of preventable patient deaths. And in too many cases, providers don’t communicate about their mistakes with […]