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Submit your post to the HealthCare SocialMedia Review by David W. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine Looking for something to do in the middle of Memorial Day weekend? Why not submit a post to the HealthCare SocialMedia Review? Please send your submission by Monday Ma ... Read on »

States should stop diverting stop-smoking money by David W. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine The states and cigarette industry have a symbiotic relationship. Tobacco companies have paid states close to $250 billion in settlement money since 1998, and much of that ... Read on »

Why I decided to get a PSA screening test for prostate cancer by David W. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine I’m a big believer in avoiding over-testing and over-treatment. So it might surprise you that I opted to undergo prostate-specific antigen (PSA) screening for prostate can ... Read on »

Health Wonk Review is up at Disease Management Care Blog by David W. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine Disease Management Care Blog hosts a thorough and excellent Health Wonk Review . Check it ou. Read on »

Call for submissions: HealthCare SocialMedia Review #5 by David W. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine There’s a new blog carnival in town: The HealthCare SocialMedia Review . The first hosts have done a great job, and I’m hoping to live up to their high standard when I hos ... Read on »

Defending “optimism bias” in the face of a grim prognosis by David W. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine Doctors are learning how to communicate more clearly with families about the prognosis for critically ill patients, yet even when they communicate clearly they can be frus ... Read on »

What happens after the Supreme Court issues its ObamaCare ruling? by David W. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine If you’re free at 5:30 today, come join me in Cambridge, MA for a free Let’s Talk HIT event, sponsored by the RGL Group of Morgan Stanley Smith Barney. ( Registration is s ... Read on »

Interview with new Castlight Health President John Driscoll (transcript) by David W. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine This is the transcript of my recent podcast interview with Castlight Health President John Driscoll. David E. Williams: This is David Williams, co-founder of MedPharma ... Read on »

One way for the Democrats to win: Propose everything by David W. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine The Tea Party and its sympathizers have pushed ideological purity to an extreme in the Republican Party, especially the House. Last year’s willingness to trash the country ... Read on »

Mind-reading robot: cool but scary, too by David W. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine It’s pretty neat that researchers have figured out how to use a quadriplegic’s brain to manipulate a prosthetic arm . We’re a long way from commercialization –and some wor ... Read on »

With health care restraining costs, can higher education be far behind? by David W. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine Health care cost containment is no longer a fantasy. While health expenditures have increased much faster than GDP for many years a combination of factors is likely to bri ... Read on »

Interview with new Castlight Health President John Driscoll by David W. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine This morning Castlight Health named former Medco executive John Driscoll as its new President . In this podcast interview John describes his new role and the opportunities ... Read on »

John Driscoll joins Castlight Health as President by David W. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine Castlight Health is getting serious about pursuing its ambition to bring health care transparency to employers and payers. Earlier this month it announced a $100 million S ... Read on »

Health Wonk Review is up at Insure Blog by David W. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine Check out the latest Health Wonk Review at Insure Blog. (I’m five days late with this announcement but the posts are still timely.) Read on »

When it’s a good idea to be a difficult patient by David W. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine I’m fascinated by the topics raised in a new Health Affairs article, “ Authoritarian Physicians and Patients’ Fear Of Being Labeled ‘Difficult’ Among Key Obstacles To Shar ... Read on »

Transcript of Dreyfus interview has moved by David W. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine The updated transcript of my interview with Blue Cross Blue Shield of MA CEO Andrew Dreyfus has moved. Please access the new version here . Read on »

Interview with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts CEO Andrew Dreyfus (transcript) by David W. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine This is the transcript of my recent podcast interview with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts CEO Andrew Dreyfus. I inadvertently published an earlier draft this morn ... Read on »

The big payoff from wellness and prevention by David W. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine The belief that “an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure” is so well ingrained that it makes it easy to think we can solve our health care cost crisis the easy way ... Read on »

Image gently or be punished harshly by David W. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine It’s not exactly new information that ionizing radiation is dangerous, so I was a bit shocked four years ago when I learned just how cavalier large segments of the medical ... Read on »

Interview with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts CEO Andrew Dreyfus by David W. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine There’s been no shortage of interest in the Massachusetts health care system this election year, and the level of attention is certain to be sustained as Mitt Romney, who ... Read on »

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