Pay for performance (P4P) is all the rage in health care. Big Pharma led the way, and the popular press would have…
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Instead of Medicare for all, how about Medicare for more?
by Brian C. Joondeph MD March 8, 2019Medicare for all is one of the leading campaign issues among the Democratic presidential candidates. Michigan Rep. John Conyers first introduced the idea in…
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There has been a disturbing shift in how medical professionals feel about their career. I almost cringe every time I’m at a…
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Let’s talk about that infamous transition to third year. This is a precarious time in your medical school career when your resolve…
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At some point in my career, I had the crazy idea that if I could scale the patient-centric work I was doing…
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What physicians can learn from anthropologists
by Carolina Severiche Mena MD and Matt Artz MS MBA March 3, 2019Since the passing of the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act in 2009, it has been said that…
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When I was a third-year medical student in 2006, I was assigned to spend the day at a well-known women’s health clinic…
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As medical students, we are asked to learn in exquisite detail the ins and outs of rare diseases that we may never…