Examples are endless: The fact is that medicine is a complex team sport. Financial, managerial, legal, and operational decisions impact patient outcomes at least as much as strictly medical decisions.
Deane Waldman | Posted 08.04.2008 | Home
Why do we keep avoiding healthcare? Probably the same reasons we avoid talking about death: either we think we can do nothing about it or we are super...
Deane Waldman | Posted 07.26.2008 | Home
Healthcare puts you at risk: there are infinite opportunities for mistakes that can harm even kill you while you are awaiting the promised cure. The...
Deane Waldman | Posted 07.17.2008 | Living
There is a recent push in U.S. hospitals to inculcate a "culture of safety." Can anyone be against safety? I can and you be will too, if you want healthcare to improve.
Deane Waldman | Posted 06.16.2008 | Business
Why don't we have a nation-wide inter-operable health information system now? There are three reasons and none suffices.
Deane Waldman | Posted 06.09.2008 | Home
Who actually provides our health care? Not the regulators, legislators, hospital administrators and insurance executives, but the nurses, doctors and...
AP | PETE YOST | Posted 05.14.2008 | Entertainment
WASHINGTON — Dennis Quaid told Congress on Wednesday of a harrowing, near-fatal drug mix-up in which his newborn twins were administered 1,000 t...
Deane Waldman | Posted 05.13.2008 | Home
Our medical malpractice system works against us. We cannot just tweak it. We must reject it and create a whole new one. What do we want to happen whe...
Deane Waldman | Posted 04.23.2008 | Living
What do you think when you hear the word efficiency? Someone who is efficient uses time, money and resources wisely. He or she gets the job done with...
Deane Waldman | Posted 04.15.2008 | Politics
Imagine you are a doctor walking down the street. You come upon a woman lying on the sidewalk possibly unconscious. Surrounding this woman are four ...
Alison Rose Levy | Posted 03.23.2008 | Living
The Quaid twins were just two of the two million people, who each year contract infections in hospital. Ninety thousand die from these infections annually.
In a candid interview via satellite from China, Olympic...
Update: Keith Olbermann had Rachel Maddow on "Countdown" Tuesday night to celebrate...
UPDATE: A day after Roseanne's blogs from below...
"How honest are we if we tell the truth most of the time &...
Obama's been to Hawaii. We're moving...
I've read the comments. I know what some of you think. Yawn. It's not a story. He's not...
LOS ANGELES — Barack Obama is getting praise from Nashville, courtesy of one...
EAST CLEVELAND, Ohio — A Cleveland Clinic official says Democratic U.S....
NEW YORK — The suspense didn't quite compare to the identity of "Deep Throat,"...
USA Today reports that inventors, despite the clashing designs of airplanes...
There are over 6 billion people of people on the...
Last year I praised Rebecca Taylor and...
NAPLES, Fla. — Tropical Storm Fay rolled ashore in southwestern Florida on Tuesday without...
Deane Waldman | Posted 08.15.2008 | Living