Our call to retire statistical significance and to use confidence intervals as compatibility intervals is not a panacea. Although it will eliminate many bad practices, it could well introduce new ones. Thus, monitoring the literature for statistical abuses should be …
Category: Patient Safety
Hoaxes, Scams, and Your Medical Care – AAPS | Association of American Physicians and Surgeons
“…we continue to have a slew of healthcare hoaxes: corporate stakeholders, legislators, and government agencies promise everything and have no accountability for their failure to keep their promises. Take the large health systems’ claim that hospital consolidation and buying up …
Female Genital Mutilation: Why Are Doctors Silent?
“…we have seen a trend moving it away from villages and homes, where it has usually been done, and into hospitals, clinics, and private offices. The location change has ushered in a vocational change. Health professionals—doctors and nurses—are now frequently …
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No Free Lunch…Except in Pharma – PBGH
Great article by Pittsburgh Business Group on Health that explains the PBM rebate scam. “The Problem… Above board discounts and rebates would not cause problems. Let’s say your friend had a coupon for $10 off when you bought two entrees. …
The Pendulum Has Swung Too Far
“…an act, a habit, an institution, a law, gives birth not only to an effect, but to a series of effects. Of these effects, the first only is immediate; it manifests itself simultaneously with its cause—it is seen. The others …
University of Lynchburg launches Master of Health Benefits Design – University of Lynchburg
“There’s a need for cohesive education that shows corporations and benefits advisors how to tie together value-based approaches to health care that provide higher quality health care at significantly lower costs,” program director Dr. Tom Scott said. “Health care is …
Sometimes You Just Gotta Treat It | A Country Doctor Writes:
Notes from a doctor with a laptop, a house call bag and a fountain pen I thought to myself about how often specialists are in a position where they can simply declare “Not my department”, but primary care docs are …
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