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Grief and Loss in Medicine: The Role of Physicians in Helping Families Find Closure
This week I blogged about screening tests for potentially life threatening ovarian…
Medical Complications and Medical Negligence: What’s the Difference?
The day before this writing, a patient who was minutes away from…
Deploying Health IT and Patient-Centered Process Improvement for Innovation
Many have gathered in Washington, DC this week to celebrate National Health…
Minnesota Announces New Strategies Dealing with Opioid Abuse
Minnesota has been a pioneer of sorts in the manner in which…
Unnecessary Health Care Expenditures
As reported in various sources last week including the Washington Post, the…
Protecting Seniors From the West Nile Virus
This year marks the country’s worse West Nile virus outbreak since 1999.…
Understanding Physician Shortages Means Asking the Right Questions
Uwe E. Reinhardt, an economics professor at Princeton, responded to a July…
Is Patient Engagement Changing Traditional HealthCare Marketing?
“Marketing is dead,” proclaims a recent Harvard Business Review blog post, adding that traditional…
World Suicide Prevention Day: Suicide Around the World
September 10th, 2012 marks the 10th anniversary of the World Suicide Prevention…
