1) Never Stop Learning

Healthcare costs in the US are the highest – Why?

Why are US healthcare costs higher than the price paid for the same procedures, tests and drugs ANYWHERE else on the planet?

Physician Burnout is CRAZY sometimes

Here’s a common definition of crazy behavior:

Crazy is …

Doing the same thing over and over again
and expecting a different result.

Medical Malpractice Myths … another one bites the dust.

Apparently there is a widely held belief amongst physicians of a connection between income and malpractice risk.

Turns out the idea that poor patients are more likely to sue their doctors is nothing more than a myth, according to report published in the Friday online edition of Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research.

Here is an excerpt from the Abstract

Doctors and Nurses form a TEAM in healthcare

Often that team is quite dysfunctional because of a basic cross wiring in the command and control of the team.

A doctors and nurses post on KevinMD.com last week hit a nerve. It was titled “Listening to Nurses is a Key to Being a Good Doctor”.

I couldn’t agree more.

I just ran into this tremendous resource today and have to share. It is a 4 day Yoga and Medicine Conference with up to 16 hours of CME running in conjunction with the Copper Mountain 28th Annual Genuine Jazz and Wine Festival.

Worst Medical Technology Dangers – Here’s Your Dirty Dozen

Medscape Today has published its list of the “12 Worst Medical Technology Dangers”. Looking at the list … it would be more accurately described as a list of error prone systems within healthcare. Each of these technologies work magnificently, until we throw humans into the mix … or fail to put systems into place to address the known medical error risks.

The lists are based on interviews with 27,157 adults as part of the annual National Health Interview Survey, conducted by a division of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Sleepy’s says its rankings were based on two variables:
1) average hours of sleep that respondents said they got in a 24-hour period, and
2) respondents’ occupations, as they would be classified by the Department of Labor.

The jobs with the most sleep-deprived work forces are below, starting with the most sleep-deprived at the top: