If you received the November issue of Monthly Musings On American Healthcare, perhaps you saw the pair of feature stories that helped inspire the following survey results. The first article examined our fear of new technologies and why doctors often blame machines for...
TV can provide surprisingly deep insights into American life, depicting (and sometimes predicting) cultural movements before they reach the mainstream. My Forbes article From ‘House’ To ‘Diagnosis’: The Evolution of 21st-Century Medicine (As Seen On TV) took a look at...
The U.S. healthcare system has no shortage of problems. Independent studies confirm it’s the most expensive and least effective in the developed world. There’s also no shortage of ideas to reverse rising costs, lagging quality and declining satisfaction ratings....
What Does “The Culture Of Medicine” Mean To You? In September 2019, I presented clinicians and non-clinicians with a word-association survey on my website. I asked readers of my monthly newsletter (and followers on social media) to weigh in the same two questions:...
What Does “The Culture Of Medicine” Mean To You? In September 2019, I presented clinicians and non-clinicians with a word-association survey on my website. I asked readers of my monthly newsletter (and followers on social media) to weigh in the same two questions:...
There’s no shortage of surveys that examine physician burnout from the perspective of the doctor. In July, readers of the "Monthly Musings On American Healthcare" newsletter were asked to offer a different POV on burnout. Whether they work in healthcare or not,...
Health policy experts have pointed out that the United States spends dramatically more than other nations on medical care, but markedly less on social services like childcare, nutritional assistance, and parental leave following childbirth. How we allocate the...
As usual, there has been plenty of optimistic chatter to go around at medical meetings in 2019, but little substance in terms of solutions. Between sessions this spring, I tried to think of major improvements in healthcare over the past five years. My list was...
This month's reader survey was inspired by a recent study on the power of primary care, which found that adding 10 primary care physicians to a population of 100,000 people is associated with an average life-expectancy increase of 51.5 days. That’s compared to a...
In March, I welcomed your prognostications on the future of healthcare technology. Respondents were asked whether these 6 innovations will be consistently used in medical practice by the year 2030. Here are the results: I was surprised by the feedback in last month’s...
