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Recommended Reading: May 4 – 10
This week’s Recommended Reading includes the latest on professionalism in medical school and Choosing Wisely®: Researchers interviewed medical students to assess the impact of Clinical Reflection Training (CRT) on how students handled professional dilemmas. Students reported that CRT reduced their stress, improved patient care and was a useful part of professional development. On The Health [...]
Reflections on the 2012 Professionalism Article Prize Winners
As our nation continues to grapple with financial and ethical challenges facing its health care system, and provisions of the Affordable Care Act begin to take effect, the third annual ABIM Foundation Professionalism Article Prize serves as a call to physicians and all health care providers to fulfill the principles and commitments of the Physician [...]
Recommended Reading: April 20-26
This Recommended Reading installment features new articles on conflicts of interest, transitions of care and patient autonomy: The American Medical Student Association has released its 2013 PharmFree Scorecard, which issues letter grades to medical schools based on their conflict of interest policies. A Community Catalyst blog post provides highlights from this year’s PharmFree Scorecard and [...]
Recommended Reading: April 13 – 20
This week’s Recommended Reading features articles on stewardship of resources and online professionalism: Johns Hopkins researchers conducted a randomized-controlled trial to determine whether presenting cost data to providers when they ordered a test affected test ordering. They found that presenting this data to providers resulted in a modest decrease in test ordering. In a recent [...]
Selling Proton Therapy to the Public: High Costs Without Benefit
Arriving in a train station in a Northeast city the other day, I was struck by the number of advertisements for proton therapy at a local academic medical center (AMC) plastered throughout the station and in local subways. The ads feature a bicycle racer with the tag line: “THE WIND IN YOUR FACE IS WORTH [...]
Recommended Reading: March 9-15
Catch up on the latest articles on medical professionalism, courtesy of this week’s Recommended Reading: The authors of Ethical Physician Incentives — From Carrots and Sticks to Shared Purpose argue that a healthcare organization’s incentive schemes should align with the goals articulated in the Physician Charter. In a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation blog post, Drs. [...]
Why Professionalism Matters: A Patient’s Point of View
As an employee of the ABIM Foundation, I’ve batted around the phrase “medical professionalism” for several years but it didn’t really hit home for me until I encountered it – and the lack thereof – as a patient. Over the past six months, I’ve logged a few miles in the frequent patient program. I underwent [...]
Incurable and Irreversible
My Argentinean mother-in-law is 95 years old and suffers from advancing dementia. She has lived with my sister-in-law for the last eight years and both of her daughters are considered her caregivers. A person comes to the house for about seven hours a day to assist her in activities of daily living. After suffering what [...]
Where Do the Savings Go When Waste is Removed?
Recently, I spoke on a panel at a NEHI (New England Health Institute) Roundtable Discussion in Washington, DC on bending the cost curve. NEHI had released a list of actions that could reduce costs by more than $700 million and improve quality of care. Their recommendations included reducing medication errors, reducing antibiotic use, improving patient [...]
There’s More To It Than Just Money
I highly recommend reading a recent report sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Urban Institute (the employer of the authors) by Robert Berenson and Elizabeth Docteur entitled Doing Better by Doing Less; Approaches to Tackle Overuse of Services. It is an excellent analysis of approaches that address the issue of inappropriate and [...]
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