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NPR and the Wall Street Journal ran stories this week on Wal-Mart’s attempt to re-shape delivery and provision of primary medical care in the U.S.The company is soliciting proposals from vendors that offer products and services designed to deliver efficient and inexpensive primary care to the market place. Then, in an “Oops” moment, the company’s VP for health [...]
GH and family are traveling the stunning California coast between SF and LA. Among the sights seen: otters in Monterey Bay, the steep shores of Big Sur (in rock slide inducing rain), and elephant seals near San Simeon. Yet to come are the Hearst castle, Morro Bay, and Santa Barbara. It’s somehow reassuring to know how [...]
How and when do new medical technologies become the ‘standard of care?’ A recent study showed that the use of CT scans in hospital emergency departments rose sixteen percent between 1995 and 2007. The only thing that surprises me about this is that it’s not more. Way more. I remember the first time I actually [...]
How well does e-smoking approximate the real thing? Hope you had a pleasant Thanksgiving. GlassHospital was on the road again, taking the kids to visit the hometown of Cleveland, health mecca of the eastern Midwest. Had Thanksgiving dinner at my aunt and uncle’s. My aunt is a culinary master; she loves to pull out all [...]
Over the summer, a couple of news stories stood out to me as examples of lemons and lemonade: First, the prix du citron: Tony Hayward of BP, after his company’s oil rig ‘malfunctioned’ and poured millions of barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico. He had a few choice doozies. You probably remember: The Gulf of [...]