Primary Care
Dec 23, 2012: Does AAMC have an answer for the primary care shortage? No.
Feb 8, 2013: Creating more family doctors: should we shorten medical school? How?
Mar 19, 2013: Can you be "too strong" for family medicine?
Jun 2, 2013: Primary Care Contributes More than Money....
Jun 9, 2013: Helping primary care help the health of all of us
Oct 13, 2013: The role of Primary Care in improving health: In the US and around the world
Oct 26, 2013: Why do students not choose primary care?
Health Reform
Feb 2, 2013: Kansas, Medicaid expansion, and human rights
Apr 21, 2013: Payments for surgical complications: With a scalpel or a meat ax?
May 5, 2013: Medicaid Expansion: Do we care for people or not?
May 12, 2013: Hospital charge variation and Medicare equipment fraud: two forms of gaming the "non-system"
May 26, 2013: Medicaid expansion will leave out many of the poorest: What is wrong with this picture?
Jun 16, 2013: "Call the Midwife": If Britain could afford to create a National Health Service after WWII, we can now!
Jul 21, 2013: Changes in the RUC: None.. How come we let a bunch of self-interested doctors decide what they get paid?
Aug 4, 2013: Why poor people choose ERs: we need a system designed to meet everyone�s needs
Sep 29, 2013: What can we really expect from ObamaCare? A lot, actually.
Nov 17, 2013: Dead Man Walking: People still die from lack of health insurance
Health Research and Evidence
Dec 8, 2013: More on mammography: just because you don't like the results doesn't make research junk science
Jan 12, 2013: Mental Illness and Guns: A public health perspective
Jan 19, 2013: Weight and class: who is obese and why should we care?
Jan 26, 2013: The flu is a virus!
Apr 7, 2013: Research on disparities/inequities, in practices and communities needs much greater funding
Apr 14, 2013: Premature babies and informed consent: we need to do it right
Sep 7, 2013: President Bush's stent: inappropriate screening and care for the rich, nothing for the poor
Medical Education
Feb 8, 2013: Creating more family doctors: should we shorten medical school? How?
Mar 19, 2013: Can you be "too strong" for family medicine?
Jul 7, 2013: Why don't graduate medical education programs produce the doctors America needs?
Oct 26, 2013: Why do students not choose primary care?
Nov 3, 2013: Should Medical School last 3 years? If so, which 3?
The Health System and Social Justice
Dec 1, 2012: Gaming the system: Integration of healthcare services can just raise costs, not quality
May 19, 2013: Keeping immigrants and all of us healthy is a social task
Jun 16, 2013: "Call the Midwife": If Britain could afford to create a National Health Service after WWII, we can now!
Jun 22, 2013: Moving to Recovery By Design (guesy post by Robert Bowman, MD)
Jan 5, 2013: When is the doctor not needed? And who should take their place?
Feb 16, 2013: Creating team based care: are non-physician providers more effectively used in primary or subspecialty care?
Feb 23, 2013: Corruption and Scandal in the NHS: What happens when you introduce private incentives to public services
Mar 2, 2013: Squeezing the needy: a truly flawed financing system for healthcare
Jul 14, 2013: The State of US Health: improved over 20 years, but not nearly enough
Jul 28, 2013: The high cost of US health care: it's not the colonoscopies, it's the profit
Aug 4, 2013: Why poor people choose ERs: we need a system designed to meet everyone�s needs
Aug 10, 2013: Insufficient outrage: is health care about helping people or enriching providers?
Aug 17, 2013: Status Syndrome: an important determinant of health (guest post by Linda French, MD)
Sep 7, 2013: President Bush's stent: inappropriate screening and care for the rich, nothing for the poor
Oct 6, 2013: Critical access hospitals: Worth subsidizing to help save rural America
Nov 10, 2013: Does quality of care vary by insurance status? Even Medicare? Is that OK?
Nov 17, 2013: Dead Man Walking: People still die from lack of health insurance
Nov 23, 2013: Outliers, Hotspotting, and the Social Determinants of Health
Providers, Values, and Health
