Top medicine articles for July 2014

A collection of some interesting medical articles published recently:Migraines Linked to Increased Risk of 'Silent Strokes' http://buff.ly/1hTE5RuDoctor’s Salaries Are Not the Big Cost - NYTimes http://buff.ly/QWe2lx -- "There is a startling secret behind America’s health care hierarchy: Physicians, the most highly trained members in the industry’s work force, are on average right in the middle of the compensation pack. That is because the biggest bucks are currently earned not through the delivery of care, but from overseeing the business of medicine.The base pay of insurance executives, hospital executives and even hospital administrators often far outstrips doctors’ salaries: $584,000 on average for an insurance chief executive officer, $386,000 for a hospital C.E.O. and $237,000 for a hospital administrator, compared with $306,000 for a surgeon and $185,000 for a general doctor.Among doctors, there is growing frustration over the army of businesspeople around them and the impact of administrative costs, which are reflected in inflated charges for medical services."25% of US adults consult online physician-rating sites - Doctors Check Online Ratings From Patients and Make Changes. Online ratings "can be pretty brutal. However, part of being a physician now is having to deal with these.” "When we decided to quit ignoring it and embraced it, it totally changed the game" - WSJ http://buff.ly/1mQ5XLCFDA Approves New Drug for Crohn Disease and UC: vedolizumab (En...
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