It took no time at all for establishment medicine to react to the Supreme Court ruling that race-based admissions were unconstitutional. “Today’s decision demonstrates a lack of understanding of the critical benefits of racial and ethnic diversity in educational settings and a failure to recognize the urgent need to address health inequities in our country,” said a statement Association of American Medical Colleges. “We need more health workers, especially those who look like and share the experiences of the people they serve,” said Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra.
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Category: Doctors & Hospitals
Primary Care Physicians’ Changing Relationship with Patients
Does your doctor recognize you when you come in? Or does he or she merely scan your file quickly before stepping into the exam room? My dog’s veterinarian knows her history mostly from memory, but I’m not convinced physicians in large cities can have that close a relationship with their patients. It’s a little too much to expect that level of relationship in my opinion. It isn’t necessarily bad if our doctors only remember us contextually. That is, at the office they remember our history when prompted with a file but would not recognize us at the mall without a prompt.
NYT: We’re in a Golden Age of Medicine
The New York Times announced we’re in a Golden Age of medicine, saying:
We may be on the cusp of an era of astonishing innovation — the limits of which aren’t even clear yet.
Hype springs eternal in medicine, but lately the horizon of new possibility seems almost blindingly bright. “I’ve been running my research lab for almost 30 years,” says Jennifer Doudna, a biochemist at the University of California, Berkeley. “And I can say that throughout that period of time, I’ve just never experienced what we’re seeing over just the last five years.”
Study: Physician-Owed Hospitals Have Lower Prices, Boosts Competition
The Affordable Care Act, a misnomer if there ever was one, has been the law of the land for 13 years now. One of the many ill-thought-out provisions was one that banned further development of hospitals owned by physicians.
“The Affordable Care Act (ACA) imposed severe restrictions on physician-owned hospitals, such as prohibiting the development of new physician-owned hospitals and the expansion of existing ones,” Ge Bai, a professor of accounting and health policy at Johns Hopkins University and one of the coauthors of the study, said.