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...Mayo Way The Mayo Clinic attracts Kings and Presidents, injured athletes and ailing billionaires. When Mr. Burns visited Mayo on The Simpsons, Fidel Castro and the Pope were chatting in the waiting room. But Rochester's costs are well below the national average because Mayo also provides tremendous value for ordinary care; its flagship hospital spent just more than half as much per patient in the last two years of life as did the UCLA Medical Center...
...true that information alone can be helpful. Anesthesiologists sharply reduced mortality rates after their association published evidence-based guidelines; emergency-room nurses have reduced infection rates by following clinically proven to-do lists. After one pharmacy benefits manager sent letters urging customers with high cholesterol to check out the evidence-based Consumer Reports site Bestbuydrugs.org, 4.3% switched to cheaper but equally effective drugs, for savings of $12 million. Similarly, when doctors and patients are fully educated about the costs and benefits of various treatment options for prostate cancer, surgery rates drop by half...
Even within the White House complex, the opposing teams each have their own turfs. In the halls of power - the Oval Office, the East Room and the Rose Garden - the President oversees his domain. But just a few steps away sits the White House briefing room, a hotbox of cameras and television lights, where the President holds no real dominion. Here the press corps - a ragtag assortment of denim-clad cameramen, unkempt writers and preening television talkers - makes its home. When government officials come to visit, they enter a different space and are generally asked to prove themselves. Questions...
Barack Obama scheduled his Tuesday press conference, like the three that came before, on home turf, in the Rose Garden, just outside his office. But owing to the heat, the event was moved inside at the last minute - to the foreign soil of the briefing room. And the press corps, which has been deferential through repeated prime-time pressers in the East Room, began to assert itself as never before in his tenure. (Read "Why Obama Remains Cautious on Iran...
...correspondents who asked the President a question quickly barked follow-ups, repeatedly insisting that the President respond to their queries. Two veterans of the briefing room, Politico's Mike Allen and Hearst's Helen Thomas, shouted questions to the President out of order, which he did not answer (and did not appear to appreciate). And ABC News' Jake Tapper compared the President to the Star Trek character Spock...