Health Affairs has a blog post that integrates recent Atlantic and New Yorker articles and challenges the wider applicability of a recent study’s finding of of a forward-looking coorelation between spending/utilization and quality…
And Atul Gawande (author of the New Yorker article above) has another New Yorker article worth a look at.
A post on possible gender bias in scientific writing anthology by Richard Dawkins.
Health Wonk Review with sausage.
A discussion (from October) of the Medicare buy-in now being proposed; Insurers, AMA and AHA oppose.
Big money in pharmaceutical sales data. Will it be restricted?
Behavioral intervention to bring about a positive change in cortico-cortical white matter tracts.
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