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Plenty, say physicians associations, whose members warn that clinics - which are typically staffed by nurse practitioners and are positioned in stores that also sell prescriptions - will be inclined to misdiagnose and overprescribe. Worse, they are not built to provide long-term care for chronic conditions such as hypertension, and they threaten the ideal of a lasting doctor-patient relationship, denying consumers a so-called "medical home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Drive-Thru Medical: Retail Health Clinics' Good Marks | 9/1/2009 | See Source »

Neither the clinics nor the studies are perfect, as the Rand team concedes. Even an exhaustive survey of one state is still a study of just that state. And the very accessibility of those Minnesota clinics might have encouraged more visits by mildly ill people whose complaints would have vanished on their own. Give the clinics so many easy pitches to hit and you may artificially drive up their average. Still, with local and regional hospitals such as the Cleveland Clinic increasingly working in partnership with such retail operations, more and more of these in-store outlets are likely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Drive-Thru Medical: Retail Health Clinics' Good Marks | 9/1/2009 | See Source »

...turns out that Tom Jehn, the Expos program director, tweets under @trjehn. For someone whose job centers on clear and cogent writing, his tweets are a tad ironic...

Author: By Liyun Jin | Title: Expos, Gen Ed directors on Twitter | 9/1/2009 | See Source »

...said that Ham’s work in areas such as circuits and biomedical devices and his extensive knowledge of both electrical engineering and physics helped propel him to the forefront of the candidate pool. “He’s the kind of guy we look for whose knowledge spans disciplines and can create the kind of inventions that the world needs,” Morissett said. —Anita B. Hofschneider can be reached at hofschn@fas.harvard.edu...

Author: By Anita Hofschneider, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Young Inventor Promoted | 8/31/2009 | See Source »

...that he thought political calculation might have been at play. (Polls supporting Bush tended to spike when the terrorism threat level went up.) But he is not about to accuse either Rumsfeld or Ashcroft of letting politics cloud their judgment. "I'm not trying to second-guess two colleagues whose service I respect," he says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ridge: Second Thoughts, but Not Second-Guessing | 8/31/2009 | See Source »

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