Tag: health-reform
Can More Care Actually Result in Lower Costs for All?
January 31st, 2011by: Dr. Angelo Falcone
I read an article recently by Dr. Atul Gawande in the New Yorker that comes as close to anything regarding making an argument that more care to the right subset of patients (Hot Spotters) may actually result in overall lower system costs. There are some mind-boggling statistics in the article including the highest 1% of patients […]
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Do the Right Thing – Hold the Inappropriate Antibiotics
January 26th, 2011by: Dr. Scott Freedman
Recently I saw an 18 month old girl on her second course of antibiotics for an “infection”, according to the mother. The child initially had symptoms of fever associated with nasal congestion and cough and sore throat. How she or the treating physician determined she had a sore throat will always be an enigma for […]
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Why Can’t We All Just Get Along (and Share Data)
December 14th, 2010by: Dr. Angelo Falcone
Sometimes it is the simple things in life that may make all the difference. How about the ability of doctors and hospitals to actually access current information on patients so we do not duplicate testing and procedures? This interesting study from the Kaiser Foundation found that patients who visited multiple emergency departments racked up three […]
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What is a Pediatric Emergency Medicine Physician?
November 22nd, 2010by: Dr. Scott Freedman
For years, I have contended that all doctors and more so all specialists are not cut from the same cloth. I believe it’s more than simply how one practices; it is about ones’ motivations and convictions. To better understand the working relationship we have with our colleagues, we need to better understand how they think, […]
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