I got into the health care field to save lives, and the last thing I planned on doing was to chair a committee and study process improvement. In the beginning, I asked myself how all of that ancillary activity could have anything to do with my mission and calling.
While I applaud educating physicians to be better communicators, a prescriptive "say this... not that" as suggested in the Wall Street Journal is not going to solve the problem. Genuine empathy is only partly conveyed by the words you say.
I don't want to be a statistic any longer. I don't want to be a "baby boomer" that is living longer but sicker than my parents. I don't want the illnesses that can be prevented by simply moving more and eating right.
WASHINGTON -- Confused about the federal budget struggle? So are doctors, hospital administrators and other medical professionals who serve the 100 mi...
People seeking health care often feel that they are forced to walk in blind. Yes, you can choose where to go for your health care but in reality, you often have had no useful information to make your decision. Until now.
Unemployment remains historically high, but some sectors are booming. Which are healthiest? Health care added more jobs than any other sector in 2011...
WASHINGTON -- The Washington Post Co. is getting into the health care business with the purchase of a majority stake in Celtic Healthcare Inc., a prov...
If you need a job -- and any will do -- move to Houston. Buoyed in part by the oil industry, the sprawling metropolitan area created the most jobs fro...
If we truly want to develop a sustainable and functional medical system in this country, we are going to need to redefine what constitutes evidence. We need to open our minds and expand out of the box we have sealed ourselves into.
Since insurance companies undertook extensive lobbying efforts against health care reform -- spending millions in an attempt to derail the legislation...
WASHINGTON -- Though many of the people they care for wouldnāt know it, the roughly two million home care aides who tend to the elderly and disabled...
As the federal government pushes to digitize health records, current security practices are inadequate to defend against a growing number of data brea...
A dwindling number of patients, combined with oncoming Medicare and Medicaid cuts, are making more likely the prospect of nonprofit hospitals being is...
They have few options other than dropping coverage as insurers raise rates and slash benefits. Insurers blame the soaring cost of medical care and the...
Four years ago, a group of lawmakers and aides crafted Medicare Part D, the prescription drug program for seniors that has produced billions of dollar...
The word "industry" itself is apt in describing our current insurance system. Under "industry" we assume that there is a concrete, external object produced through human labor that is insurable.
Lack of adequate health care may have contributed to the deaths of some 17,000 US children over the past two decades, according to a study released by...
Health care providers are making too much money. So what is the solution? Less health insurance, not more, may be the answer. Fewer food subsidies, not more, might be a start.
Max Baucus was paid handsomely (in campaign contributions) by the health care industry to deliver a health care reform bill that only the health care ...
I don't blame the health care companies. I would do the same thing in their position. They'd have to be stupid and negligent not to buy Max Baucus. I don't blame them, I blame us.