The latest philanthropic trend, no matter how well intended, might be making health-care inequality worse. Six years ago, the New York University Grossman School of Medicine, in Manhattan, announced that it would become tuition-free for all students.
Physicians for generations accepted being at the mercy of their pagers. Now, many are questioning medicine’s workaholic culture.
Physicians will see their Medicare reimbursement fall 2.9% next year if Congress doesn’t stop the cuts. Meanwhile, reimbursement for hospital outpatient departments is rising 2.9%.
As at-home, do-it-yourself (DIY) brain stimulation devices like transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) gain popularity for common psychiatric conditions like depression, anxiety, and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), questions arise about their safety and efficacy.
The quadruple aim represents an ambitious, holistic vision for the future of health care: improving population health, enhancing the patient experience, reducing per capita costs, and improving the work-life balance of health care providers.
Fifty-six percent of surveyed physicians are highly concerned that a peer review could be misused to punish a physician for reasons unrelated to the review.
Chemotherapy has been used for decades to treat patients with cancer. One common type of chemotherapy - called fluorouracil (5-FU) when given by IV, or capecitabine (Xeloda or CAPE) when given by pill – can be toxic or fatal to a small percentage of people who carry a genetic change in a gene called DPYD.
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