The goal of evidence-based medicine is to gather evidence (like the endodontist) from successful treatments and standardized therapies. Increasingly, medicine is being dragged – kicking and screaming – from an art where individual doctors have their own methods to a science where every doctor follows the same procedures.
Category: Direct Primary Care
NBC News Investigation: Stingy Insurers Are Delaying, Denying Cancer Care
Tracy Pike was a 45-year-old father of three when he was diagnosed with Stage-4 stomach cancer. Chemotherapy reduced the size of his tumor, but his doctor recommended an aggressive treatment, combining surgery and intensive chemotherapy at the MD Anderson Cancer Center. His health insurer later denied the treatment…
Sunday Links
- Biden piles on last minute regulations.
- There is wide variation in low value care (e.g., PSA testing for men ages 75+) among the states.
- Medicare Advantage is disproportionately popular among Black, Hispanic, Asian and low-income enrollees.
- Homelessness reaches the highest level on record.
- Health insurer denial: a bionic arm for a little girl without a biological arm is medically unnecessary and is for cosmetic use only.