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...hasn't been easy. "The dog ate one of my cycling gloves," says Kesel, who gets around the city on a bike. "If I'm patient, a used pair will turn up in someone's garage." Compacters surf through websites such as Freecycle and PaperBackSwap. They troll thrift shops and swap meets. One of the founders, a Silicon Valley marketer, found a sewing machine and a 10-ft. artificial Christmas tree on Craigslist - both free. Another couple got free mis-mixed paint from hardware stores and made do with a second-hand shower curtain. New underwear is allowed...
...Patching the Safety Net A series of clinic visits by one patient made me realize just how broken the current health care system is ? and what can be done...
...prettier - or at least better coiffed than anybody taking actual care of the sick - drug reps are a feature of medical life that few outsiders see. Known as "detail" people or (behind closed doors) "pharma babes," they are basically salespeople. They generally work on commission. Despite all the patient information confidentiality laws, they somehow find out which doctors write how many prescriptions for what...
...business of medical repping, although infrequently scrutinized, is invariably seen as a negative in the public eye, somewhere between legislative logrolling and subsidizing Big Sugar. The unethical influencing of our prescribing, the corruption of the sacred relationship between doctor and patient, allegations of bribery, unnecessarily increasing the price of health-care - these are on the rep's rap sheet. Yet it's a perfectly legal profession. Here are three reasons...
...there are laws about continuing medical education (CME)," you might say. The problem is that the CME apparatus is ungainly and practically impossible to standardize. As an orthopedist, I can get all the CME I need listening to lectures on handwashing and diversity sensitivity - and then poison my next patient with the wrong dose of a new drug...