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Last week’s ABIM Foundation Summer Forum focused on patient-centered care… and who could be against that? But is patient-centered care just a healthcare MacGuffin?
What’s a MacGuffin, you ask? In a spectacular talk at the Forum, Michael Richardson of Read More...
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All medical mistakes are problematic. A few are truly tragic. But every now and then, a medical error comes along that is downright hilarious. From AHRQ WebM&M, the case-based Web journal I edit for the federal government, here are two of the latter Read More...
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I recently participated in a meeting whose aim was to develop safety measures for hospital units (ie, med-surg, ED, L&D). As various measures were being ticked off, I muttered that we should also try to capture errors that occur as patients move between Read More...
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Today my pals Peter Lindenauer and Andy Auerbach (and colleagues) published the largest hospitalist outcomes study to date, in the New England Journal of Medicine. It is a rigorous, important piece of work. Let me try to add a bit of context. First, the Read More...
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Stuff this week that caught my eye: Does medical tourism harm the natives? Are all those CT scans destroying more than our budgets? Are nocturnalists at risk for more than decubs? Will Medicare need to cut hospital payments to fuel P4P? Answers: yes, Read More...
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Earlier this week, I discussed the preliminary results of the POISE trial, the blockbuster that showed that perioperative beta blockers may cause more harm than good. I've asked my UCSF colleague Andy Auerbach, one of the nation's experts on this intervention, Read More...
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As I mentioned when we launched, this blog won’t be your destination for a weekly journal update (there are plenty of sites for that). But I will keep an eye on the literature and let you know when I see something remarkable. And then I’ll try to put Read More...
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Sorry, but today is the day for a tiny bit of Shameless Commerce – a quick plug for my new book, Understanding Patient Safety. I wouldn’t normally do this – I’m as brazenly promotional as anybody, mind you, but it does seem a bit cheesy – but then I saw Read More...
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So Zagat will now be rating doctors, using the methods it perfected helping you find the best sushi in Brooklyn Heights. What’s next, Consumer Reports rating grad schools? Fodor rating auto mechanics? Whatever you think of Zagat’s cross-dressing, it again Read More...
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The comments to my original post on this topic are so striking and passionate that I wanted to answer them in a new post rather than as another comment. First, "LPrieto" wrote, "I think the death of outpatient general Internal Medicine is inevitable." Read More...
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In late September, I had the honor (or honour, I guess) of speaking at the 5th Annual Canadian Hospitalist Conference, held in beautiful Vancouver. It was an eye-opener. About 150 hospitalists from all over Canada were there, and they really are delightful Read More...
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The pharmaceutical industry’s influence in clinical care is increasingly being viewed under a high-powered microscope, and the result is tightening restrictions on what pharma can do with/for/to doctors. Having lived through the era of sun-baked golf Read More...
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