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...dangerous impulse toward excess. Specialists are typically paid much more to do a procedure than the family doctor who takes the time to talk through the treatment options. A doctor who does a biopsy may be paid as much as $1,600 for 15 minutes' work, notes Dr. Jerome Groopman of Harvard Medical School. "If you're an internist, you can easily spend an hour with a family where a member has been diagnosed with Alzheimer's or breast cancer, and be paid $100. So there's this disconnect between what's valued and reimbursement...
Harvard's Groopman, who has written three books about the doctor-patient relationship, lived through his own doctor-patient nightmare. It started when his son had a medical emergency in July, which every doctor knows is the worst of all months to go to a teaching hospital. "The new interns and residents begin July 1," he explains. "There's a very morbid joke: don't get sick on the July 4 weekend." But years ago, when he and his wife were new parents, they were visiting her family in Connecticut for the holiday when their 9-month-old son became...
...think it provides much greater latitude to scientists to define the potential of stem cells,” said Jerome E. Groopman, professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School...
Recanati Professor of Medicine Jerome E. Groopman, who is also a leader in HIV inhibition, said Harrison has “figured out the gymnastics of several viruses, which is enormously valuable in designing molecules that interfere with the process...
...Groopman added that although there are “always uncertainties in translating laboratory discoveries into safe, effective clinical treatments, his strategy is the most rational...