Logic, Science and Rationale of Public Reporting
By, SAURABH JHA
Public reporting of doctors is fiercely controversial. I’m vehemently opposed to it. So I decided to find out why its proponents favor it.
I discuss public reporting with Ben Harder, Chief of Health Analysis at U.S. News and World Report, for JACR Firing Line. We disagreed for most parts, though we agreed that there are bad ways to rate doctors, and better ways, too. Listen to our discussion here.
Key points made by Ben Harder:
a) Reporting of quality is a decision support tool for patients and their caregivers. It is NOT to penalize or shame doctors but to engage consumers in their healthcare decis...
Source: The Health Care Blog - August 18, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: at RogueRad Tags: Radiology Firing Line Podcasts @roguerad Source Type: blogs
Logic, Science, and Rationale of Public Reporting
By SAURABH JHA
Public reporting of doctors is fiercely controversial. I’m vehemently opposed to it. So I decided to find out why its proponents favor it.
I discuss public reporting with Ben Harder, Chief of Health Analysis at U.S. News and World Report, for JACR Firing Line. We disagreed for most parts, though we agreed that there are bad ways to rate doctors, and better ways, too. Listen to our discussion here.
Key points made by Ben Harder:
a) Reporting of quality is a decision support tool for patients and their caregivers. It is NOT to penalize or shame doctors but to engage consumers in their healthcare decisi...
Source: The Health Care Blog - August 18, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: at RogueRad Tags: Radiology Firing Line Podcasts @roguerad Source Type: blogs
Aug 14, Stanford Prison Experiment: Today in the History of Psychology (14th August 1971)
Philip Zimbardo's Stanford prison experiment began with the (simulated) arrest of nine college student volunteers. In a compelling retelling of this (in)famous day for a 40-year anniversary retrospective in 2011, Zimbardo stated:
'Driven to police station in squad car, flashing lights, fingerprinted, photographed, booked, and then stuck in a holding cell blindfolded...each stripped naked, blindfold removed, standing naked in front of a full length mirror, while guards mock their lack of manly equipment, put them in their prisoner uniform, a smock, with their prisoner ID sown on front, no underwear, chain on one leg and nyl...
Source: Forensic Psychology Blog - August 14, 2018 Category: Forensic Medicine Source Type: blogs
No Jones Act Cost to Puerto Rico? I Have My Doubts
In anew op-ed I take issue Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-CA) for his unstinting support of maritime special interests and the Jones Act at the expense of average Americans. Particularly egregious is Hunter ’s promotion of a recent report funded by a special interest group, the American Maritime Partnership, whichmakes the incredible claim that the Jones Act imposes no cost to consumers in Puerto Rico. Indeed, Hunter actuallypresided over a gathering of the House Subcommittee on Maritime Transportation meant to highlight its dubious findings.While Hunter ’s support for the AMP and the unseemly nexus between legislators and mari...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - August 7, 2018 Category: American Health Authors: Colin Grabow Source Type: blogs
Mexico is Not Sending Its Murderers: Homicide Rates on the Mexican Border
President Trumptweeted this morning that, “One of the reasons we need Great Border Security is that Mexico’s murder rate in 2017 increased by 27% to 31,174 people killed, a record! The Democrats want Open Borders. I want Maximum Border Security and respect for ICE and our great Law Enforcement Professionals!” He tweeted this because he’s spent the last few daysstating that he would shut down the government if Congress did not adopt his immigration proposed reforms in the upcoming budget debate, especially the funding for the construction of a border wall.Besides the political motivation for his tweet, President T...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - July 31, 2018 Category: American Health Authors: Alex Nowrasteh Source Type: blogs
Civilian Casualties Continue to Mount in Governments ’ War on Opioids
I have written here and here about how patients have become the civilian casualties of the misguided policies addressing the opioid (now predominantly fentanyl and heroin) crisis. The policies have dramatically reduced opioid prescribing by health care practitioners and have pressured them into rapidly tapering or cutting off their chronic pain patients from the opioids that have allowed them to function. More and more reports appear in the pres s about patients becoming desperate because their doctors, often fearing they may lose their livelihoods if they are seen as “outliers” by surveillance agencies, under-t...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - July 24, 2018 Category: American Health Authors: Jeffrey A. Singer Source Type: blogs
Cato Did Remarkably Well at the Supreme Court
This was the first full term with the Court back at its “full strength” of nine justices, so all eyes were on Justice Neil Gorsuch to see how he would fit in – and how the Court’s internal dynamic and voting patterns would shift from what they were before Justice Antonin Scalia’s death in February 2016. While early reports, based on what turns out now to be unsubstantiated speculation, spoke of tensions between the newest justice and several of his colleagues, he quickly settled in and ended up writing many thoughtful opinions, including being assigned to write for the majority in several important cases (a rarit...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - June 28, 2018 Category: American Health Authors: Ilya Shapiro Source Type: blogs
ORHub, An Advanced Surgical Software Provider: Interview with Colt Melby, Chairman & CEO
ORHub is a HIPAA compliant, physician-driven digital software company focused on improving profitability and the cost effectiveness of hospitals through real-time smart data and analytics. ORHub provides a cloud-based software solution that captures information before, during, and after surgery, filling a void in the current surgical information infrastructure and providing a method to capture and measure the surgical process: evolving Big Data into Intelligent Digital Data.
In other words, ORHub’s software applications allow hospitals and medical device vendors to utilize any web-enabled device to create an anatomic...
Source: Medgadget - June 12, 2018 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Alice Ferng Tags: Exclusive Informatics Medicine Public Health Society Source Type: blogs
The U.S. Starts a Trade War —With Its Allies
The temporary exemptions to the Section 232 tariffs on steel and aluminum granted to Canada, Mexico and the European Union (EU) expire at midnight tonight, and the Trump administration has announced that it will now impose these tariffs. This action makes clear that in addition to flouting the rules based trading system the United States itself established, the Trump administration makes no distinction between foes and allies.The EU announced its retaliation list earlier, with a 25% duty on 182 products. Today, Canada responded with an announcement that it would levy tariffs of its own, amounting to$16.6 billion. That ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - May 31, 2018 Category: American Health Authors: Inu Manak Source Type: blogs
A Public-Private Partnership to Fix Health Care
By BILL ROSENBERG
The Administration proposal that would enable small employers to band together to purchase health insurance by forming Association Health Plans has several good features. Large companies do pay about 15% less, apples-to-apples, for health insurance than small businesses because they negotiate lower administrative fees, get larger discounts on health care prices and avoid premium taxes and risk charges by self-insuring. Allowing small business to replicate what boils down to volume discounts also appeals politically to many as a market-based alternative to government intervention. Reliance on Association H...
Source: The Health Care Blog - May 11, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Matthew Holt Tags: OP-ED Trump's Health Bill Rosenberg Medicare public-private partnerships Source Type: blogs
A physician ’s tribute to her father
Sometimes it is a light breeze across my face, sometimes it is a flutter in my heart, sometimes it is a glimmer of a memory, and momentarily, you are with me dad. The sensation never lasts long, just a flash sometimes as I’m talking to a patient or writing notes in a chart, and as soon as I recognize it, you are gone. But in that moment, it is like you are tapping me on the shoulder and saying “stop, take a breath, remember.” And so I remember moments, like a still picture in a slideshow.
I remember you in your white coat at work in the office when mom would bring me to visit after some appointment I had in the build...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - May 6, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/andrea-eisenberg" rel="tag" > Andrea Eisenberg, MD < /a > Tags: Physician OB/GYN Source Type: blogs
What is The Difference Between Alzheimer's and Dementia
Dementia presents as a group of symptoms, and Alzheimer's disease is the most common cause of dementia.By Bob DeMarcoAlzheimer's Reading RoomWhen someone is told they have Alzheimer's or dementia,it means they have significant memory problems as well as other cognitive and behavioral issues.Most of the time dementia is caused by Alzheimer's disease.There is great confusion about the difference betweenAlzheimer's anddementia.In a nutshell, dementia isn't a specific disease. Instead, dementia describes a group of symptoms affecting memory, thinking and social abilities severely enough to interfere with daily functioning. Alz...
Source: Alzheimer's Reading Room, The - April 26, 2018 Category: Neurology Tags: alzheimer's Alzheimer's Dementia Alzheimer's disease alzheimer's symptoms alzheimer's vs dementia the difference between alzheimer's and dementia Source Type: blogs
Apple cider vinegar diet: Does it really work?
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People search for information on a wide variety of health topics in Google and other search engines. That’s no surprise.
But I was surprised to learn that “apple cider vinegar weight loss diet” was among the fastest-rising health topic searches for Google in 2017. And then I found out that apple cider vinegar has been used medicinally for centuries!
Why the renewed interest? And, more importantly, does it work?
What is the apple cider vinegar diet?
Apple cider vinegar comes from apples that have been crushed, distilled, and then fermented. It can be consumed in small quantities or t...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - April 25, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Robert H. Shmerling, MD Tags: Diet and Weight Loss Folk remedies Health Source Type: blogs
What Are Lectins? The Health Implications and How to Avoid It
Over the past few years, there has been so much hype and speculation around gluten, with many people considering it the number one gut health enemy. While you could genuinely be having gluten intolerance or any other health condition linked to gluten, sometimes this protein isn’t the real menace. Individuals claiming to have gluten intolerance may actually be suffering from lectin sensitivity. So if you have been experiencing symptoms of gluten intolerance especially after eating something that’s made from wheat, then lectin could be the cause of your problems. Read on to find out more about lectin and how you can avoi...
Source: Nursing Comments - April 9, 2018 Category: Nursing Authors: M1gu3l Tags: Nutrition Source Type: blogs
