In 2006 Dr. Tom Bodenheimer wrote an article that was published in the New England Journal of Medicine entitled, “Primary Care –…
Public Health & Policy
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Ask any physician what quality is, and you’ll get many different answers. You will hear answers such as “finding a cause for…
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In June 1812, Napoleon invaded Russia along with an army of 600,000 men; fewer than 100,000 made it back. During their ignoble…
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Recently, social media and news organizations have been awash in the physician-led backlash to the NRA’s now infamous “stay in your lane”…
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Hospitals are no longer an important part of the social safety net. That’s a problem.
by A Country Doctor MD December 7, 2018“Admission diagnosis: causa socialis” In my training in Sweden, it was not unusual to admit patients to the hospital for social reasons:…
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I have had the fortune — both good and bad — of being at the forefront of reforming physician reimbursement as an…
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On Wednesday, I did a gunshot-wound autopsy. On Friday, I was going into the morgue to perform another when I checked Twitter…
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The National Rifle Association ruffled a lot of feathers recently when it published a tweet that said that doctors should “stay in…