Too Scared to Change

Curbing the rise in health care costs is the most important policy objective for the U.S. health system. Without cost containment we will no...

Secret Shoppers in Medical Practice

The fact that the AMA House of Delegates was planning to consider the use of “secret shopper ‘patients’” at its meeting earlier this month e...

Self-Insured Employers and Health System Reform

We Americans cherish the right to carry guns. But what about the right to carry a paunch? “ Waistlines Expand into a Workplace Issue ” in ye...

I'll be back on June 16

I spent last week in London (I wrote the two posts before leaving) and will be in a little village in Italy in the foothills of the Maritime...

Hospital Organizational Ethics

The Journal of Medical Ethics recently published an interesting study from the University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics - "Cli...

Technology Running Amok

My colleague and friend Muriel Gillick’s important article - “ The Technological Imperative and the Battle for the Hearts of America ” – end...