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...Wrong Prescription," Dr. Scott Haig correctly suggests that digital medical records are no silver bullet for the costly, inefficient U.S. health system, but for the wrong reasons [April 6]. Information technology (IT) improves efficiency with the rules of the game currently in play. If the rules reward treating disease complications but discourage management and prevention, IT will help health-care businesses churn out more complications per hour. The fundamental flaw in our current system is that despite decades of debate, no one has an adequate stake in preventing those costly complications in the first place. Steve Brown, WOODSIDE, CALIF...
...thing I've learned about me after a lot of Googling myself is that most of my sentences contain the words I, me and myself. So when I found out that Dr. Drew Pinsky had given a test to 200 celebrities to find out if they're more narcissistic than everyone else, I wanted to take the test too. And I wanted to print the results in a magazine...
...particular the November 14, 2008, piece, “Harvard Medical School Students Push to Codify Conflict of Interest Polices”—have placed unwarranted emphasis on individuals as opposed to the systemic issue at hand. In this letter, we wish to clarify Dr. Paul Richardson’s role in our course as described by The Crimson and also the process that led to the implementation of a formal HMS policy requiring faculty disclosure of conflicts of interest...
...mentioned by The Crimson, first-year medical students have weekly “clinics” during which physicians present patients to provide clinical context to basic science. During one such clinic, Dr. Julian Adams—the lead developer of the drug bortezomib—described the drug’s scientific discovery and clinical development. Dr. Richardson then interviewed a patient who was being successfully treated with bortezomib-based therapy, providing a very human perspective to the presentation. The discussion of the patient’s experience with both the disease and treatment was inspirational and relevant...
...best known as a radio host, but you're practically your own industry. You sell exercise tapes, you make jewelry for charity, you have a stage show. I had no idea I could buy a talking Dr. Laura action figure. Are you a brand...