The College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University has started a graduate program in Narrative Medicine. The Mission statement reads as follows: “Narrative Medicine fortifies clinical practice with the narrative competence to recognize, absorb, metabolize, interpret, and be moved by the stories of illness. Through narrative training, the Program in Narrative Medicine helps doctors, nurses, [...]
According to Ezra Klein, in the Washington Post, “The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has received thousands of comments on preliminary exchange regulations issued this year, which laid some ground rules for what the new marketplace would look like,” Klein writes. “Under the health overhaul, every state will have a new health insurance marketplace [...]
Patient empowerment may be the new practice of the day, but have we gone too far? Is this what all patients want? More than 8,000 hospitalized patients at the University of Chicago were interviewed by researchers for a study looking at this very question. When it came to medical decisions, almost all the respondents wanted [...]
Back on April 27,2009, I posted an article on Who is this AMA? Apparently this was answered this week, along with a frank discussion of Obamacare by Jim Kouri. It paints a picture of medical care going forward and it’s not a pretty sight! Physicians Form Society To Challenge AMA And ObamaCare Jim Kouri During [...]
As we traverse the paths of healthcare reform in this new century, approaches to medical treatments are different but exciting as we open up to new possibilities- and new realms. Having care on your web is an understatement. The “web” you weave will meld information gleaned from healthcare providers, internet services and your advocates or [...]
While debate swirls around the Senate regarding insurance for the American population, few are looking at who the providers for the insurance coverage will be. According to the Association of American Medical Colleges in their October 2008 article “The Complexities of Physician Supply and Demand: Projections through 2025”, there will be a physician shortage of [...]
President Obama is pushing for healthcare reform as everyone in the country is now aware. The danger in trying to save money however is that decisions on health care treatment options may be based on economic reasoning as opposed to sound medical considerations. Treatment protocols for premature infants for example, are extremely expensive running over [...]
