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• Medical Consumer

  
  Kmareka.com — Authority: 433
  Some of the statements coming from politicians and pundits about health reform are so stone ignorant you wonder if they ever in their lives got sick or saw a doctor. The word ‘choice’ gets flung around a lot. Sometimes it’s claimed that we should all have medical savings accounts. We can save faster by ...
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• Health Care reform is coming

  
  David Kirkpatrick — Authority: 137
  And the form of the reform is taking shape. It’s a major issue in the U.S. and an insanely hot button topic in politics, made even more in modern politics after the defeat of Hillarycare in Clinton’s first term. I’ve stayed largely on the sidelines on heath care reform and have mostly sought as unbiased as ...
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• Memo to Atul Gawande: The Agricultural Revolution Contributed to our Healthcare Crisis

  
  Civil Eats — Authority: 560
  In last week’s New Yorker, an article entitled Testing, Testing , written by Atul Gawande, details the author’s optimistic perspective on the Senate’s new health care bill. Gawande highlights and applauds the bill’s inclusion of pilot programs reminiscent of those responsible for transforming American ...
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• Medical Insights with Dr. A. Gawande

  
  Along The Way — Authority: 111
  Fascinating reading is available in two books by Dr. Atul Gawande I’ve read during the past couple of years I am finally briefly reviewing here. I was reminded of my intent to share my impressions of this author’s writing and books when I read “Health Care Reform Revelation” at “Time Goes By” ...
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• Odds and ends for 12/14

  
  Blog on the Run: Reloaded — Authority: 478
  Kabuki: President Obama talked tough to the bankers today, but don’t be misled : If he 1) knew what he was doing and 2) were serious about it, a lot of the executives he’s talking to would have been jobless by now and the U.S. taxpayer would be substantially better off. Heck of a job, Bushie : The Bush ...
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• Atul Gawande. Health Care and Agriculture. An Intriguing Model.

  
  Brainware — Authority: 125
  Atul Gawande is at it again.  The Mass General Surgeon, policy expert and MacArthur genius, who turned many of our health care notions on their ears with his article on the vast, seemingly unexplainable differences on health care costs in the little town of McAllen, Texas , has some still further brilliant ...
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• ‘Simplicity and grace born out of real greatness’

  
  churumuri — Authority: 133
  K. JAVEED NAYEEM writes: On the morning of the first of July, which happens to be Doctors’ Day, I received a telephone call from our famed photojournalist T. S. Satyan , who after having done us all proud, now lives in retirement here in Mysore. After wishing me, he said he wanted to send me a book as a ...
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• Atul Gawande At The New Yorker: ‘Testing, Testing’

  
  Chris Navin — Authority: 126
  Full piece here. Gawande likens the state of health care to farming at the beginning of this century and what’s happened since.   Individual doctors, patients and communities must make their own decisions, and work constantly to innovate, share knowledge, and solve the problems they have, alongside government ...
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• Healthcare

  
  Wednesday-Night — Authority: 135
  NYT Topics Health Care Reform ; HealthReform.gov ; A must read -  Making Health Care Better ; Multiple Sclerosis Info on the Web, on Twitter, on Facebook We have arrived, I think, at a difficult point in human history. For millennia, before this moment in time, we had little knowledge of what to do to ...
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• Gawande on what agricultural reform can teach us...

  
  The Health Care Reform Debate Blog - cmhmd — Authority: 109
  Testing, Testing by Atul Gawande "America’s agricultural crisis gave rise to deep national frustration. The inefficiency of farms meant low crop yields, high prices, limited choice, and uneven quality. The agricultural system was fragmented and disorganized, and ignored evidence showing how things could be done ...
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• Medicare Broke In 8 Years; Family Insurance To Reach $27,000 In 10

  
  BASIL & SPICE--HEALTHCARE ISSUES! — Authority: 119
  Review by Loyd Eskildson Atul Gawande is a Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School and has written extensively on medical issues. In the current (12/14/2009) issue of The New Yorker he offers his thoughts on the health care proposals making their way through the Congress. Gawande begins by reminding readers ...
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• Doctor’s view on paying for health reform

  
  Action For Better Healthcare — Authority: 121
  Well-known and well-respected surgeon Dr. Atul Gawande is discussing healthcare reform and his opinion is worth reading. Dr. Gawande is a staff member of Brigham and Women’s Hospital and the Dana Farber Cancer Institute. He helps put health reform costs in perspective in his latest article for The New Yorker ...
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• Doctors Take on Paying for Health Overhaul

  
  Well — Authority: 683
  Dr. Atul Gawande explains why a hodgepodge of pilot programs in the new health reform bill just might hold the answers for how to afford health care.
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• Disinfected

  
  The New Republic - Health Care Feed — Authority: 689
  Health professionals spend many thousands of hours training to cure disease. But they can learn how to stop the spread of deadly hospital infections in just a few minutes, by learning five steps for putting lines (that is, tubes) into patients’ bodies. Wash your hands. Clean the patient’s skin with chlorhexidine, ...
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