Tag: mercy-health-clinic
The Good Ole Days of Knights and Knaves
March 1st, 2011by: Dr. Angelo Falcone
I am reading more and more articles about what I like to refer as ‘the good ole days’. It reminds me of the stories our parents used to tell us about walking to school in 2 feet of snow uphill both ways. This generation is soft, soft I tell you. The problem is I am […]
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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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