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The Partnership for Patients: The Inside Scoop on a Game Changing Safety...
An hour ago, Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius and Medicare chief Don Berwick announced the “Partnership for Patients,” a far-reaching federal initiative designed to take a big...
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Can Berwick Be Saved? Here’s One Possible Scenario
We’ve all had the experience of hearing someone we know well say or write something totally out of character, and wondering, “what was that about?” Don Berwick said such a thing last week,...
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A Look Back – 30 Years Later – At The Impact Of AIDS On Residency Training
Last week marked the 30th anniversary of the first reports of a cluster of cases of pneumocystis pneumonia in gay men in Los Angeles. While I’ve recently heard a number of reflections on these early...
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Digital Distractions: Time for a Diet
It’s been said that losing weight is much harder than kicking cigarettes or alcohol. After all, because one doesn’t need to smoke or drink, the offending substances can simply be kept out of sight (if...
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Gregory House, MD, RIP
The final episode of the show House, MD airs on FOX tonite. I wrote the following op-ed piece for USA Today; it’ll appear there tomorrow morning and is reproduced here with permission. Dr. Gregory...
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Today’s Supreme Court Decision: My Two Cents
The United States government, for all its exasperating foibles and silliness, retains the capacity to surprise and even delight. Five years ago, who could have guessed that we would elect a centrist...
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The US News “Best Hospitals” List: In God We Trust, All Others Must Bring Data
I knew it would happen sooner or later, and earlier this week it finally did. In 2003 US News & World Report pronounced my hospital, UCSF Medical Center, the 7th best in the nation. That same...
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Doctors, Tend to Your Online Reputations. KevinMD’s Terrific New Book Tells How
Kevin Pho, better known as KevinMD, is the nation’s leading physician-social media guru. He and his colleague Susan Gay were nice enough to invite me to write the foreword to their book,...
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HIT Job: How the New York Times Blew it on Healthcare IT
I’m well aware that a good fraction of the people in this country – let’s call them Rush fans – spend their lives furious at the New York Times. I am not one of them. I love the Grey Lady; it would be...
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Patient Safety’s First Scandal: The Sad Case of Chuck Denham, CareFusion, and...
In retrospect – always in retrospect – it should have been obvious that, when it came to Dr. Charles Denham, something was not quite right. In a remarkable number of cases of medical errors, it’s...
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My Op-Ed in Today’s New York Times… and My New Book
This week feels like the coming out for my new book, The Digital Doctor: Hope, Hype, and Harm at the Dawn of Medicine’s Computer Age. The NY Times ran my op-ed on health IT today (they chose the...
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The ABIM Controversy: Where the Critics are Right, Where They’re Wrong, and...
“What’s up with the ABIM?” “I just got a note about an alternative board. Should I join it?” “Aren’t you glad to be off the Board?” These days, I get these questions from friends and colleagues...
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