Complaints about doctors jumped by 69% in three years.
In the UK, the number of complaints made to the General Medical Council about doctors has risen 23% in the past year, the regulator says. The GMC report showed there were 8,781 in 2011 compared to 7,153 in 2010.
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Vinod Khosla
Vinod Khosla, co-founder of Sun Microsystems as well as a partner in a couple venture capital firms was the keynote speaker at the Health Innovation Summit hosted by Rock Health in San Francisco. He said “health care is like witchcraft and just based on tradition.”
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An influx of 30 million patients will impact primary care.
I distinctly remember that in first grade I had an idea of breathtaking wisdom and profundity. Candy should be free. You may have had a similar thought at the same age. This idea was supported by an incontrovertible rationale, namely that I really liked candy. Tragically, it only took a moment for my parents to expose a flaw in my otherwise revolutionary scheme. They suggested that if candy were free, no one would bother making candy. All candy makers would do something else that allowed them to make a living. Thus exposed to the painful realities of life, I put the thought out of my head for about forty years.
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There’s an epidemic of overtreatment.
Many patients and doctors believe more is better when it comes to medical care.
But there’s an epidemic of overtreatment. Doctors are ordering too many scans, too many blood tests, too many procedures for their patients and it is costing the nation’s health care system at least $210 billion a year, according to the Institute of Medicine. It is also taking a human toll in pain, emotional suffering, severe complications and even death.
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More than four in 10 physicians said they are emotionally exhausted.
According to a national survey that came out on Monday, job burnout strikes doctors more often than it does other employed Americans.
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A smart-phone add-on enables at-home diagnosis of ear infections.
There is a post on The Health Care Blog written by Eric Topol where he looks to a future enabled by emerging technology: “Just as the little mobile wireless devices radically transformed our day-to-day lives, so will such devices have a seismic impact on the future of health care. It’s already taking off at a pace that parallels the explosion of another unanticipated digital force — social networks.
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41% of young adults between age 19 and 29 failed to get medical care in a recent 12-month period because of cost.
There are millions of young adults who are skipping necessary care and treatment because of rising health care costs in the U.S., according to a new report released on Friday.
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Are doctors rich?
There are few doctors that think of themselves as rich, and only about half think they’re fairly compensated, according to survey by Medscape released this week.
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Nine medical societies are challenging the widely held perception that more health care is better.
The old checklist for doctors: order that test, write that prescription. The new checklist for doctors: first ask yourself if the patient really needs it.
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Everybody lies — even doctors.
Eleven percent of doctors say that they have told a patient or a child’s guardian something that was not true in the past year, and about 20 percent say they have not fully disclosed a mistake to a patient because they were afraid of being sued, according to a new study.
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American doctors are harboring an embarrassing secret.
Doctors in America are going broke and the trend is worrying industry watchers. This quiet reality is spreading nationwide and is claiming a wide range of casualties, including family physicians, cardiologists and oncologists.
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Video screen time provides no educational benefits for children under age 2.
The American Academy of Pediatrics has warned that parents of infants and toddlers should limit the time their children spend in front of televisions, computers, self-described educational games and even grown-up shows playing in the background. Video screen time provides no educational benefits for children under age 2 and leaves less room for activities that do, like interacting with other people and playing, the group said.
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