Can I specialize in weird diseases? I love this stuff.
February 11th, 2006Mr. Jones has orthopnea secondary to pulmonary edema secondary to congestive heart failure secondary to ischemia secondary to a prior MI secondary to diabetes secondary to obesity secondary to poor diet and exercise regiment secondary to poor access to healthy foods secondary to poverty.
So what killed him, the heart failure, or the poverty?
Solving power-law social problems . I wonder how this would apply to malpractice (where very few doctors account for most of the lawsuits) or health care spending (where ~20% of patients account for ~80% of expenditures).
February 9th, 2006Read’em and weep , common logic. If you drop co-pays for the sickest and most at-risk people, you save tens of thousands of hospitalizations and thousands of ED visits. A RAND study.