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Aug 01, 2013 | Bob Wachter, MD
Medicare's most maddening policy
There are tens of thousands of policies in Medicare's policy manual, which makes for stiff competition for the "Most ...
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May 30, 2013 | Bob Wachter, MD
How UCSF is Solving the Quality-Cost-Value Jigsaw Puzzle
I sometimes explain to medical students that they are entering a profession being transformed, like coal to ...
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Apr 03, 2013 | Bob Wachter, MD
Measuring the quality of doctors and hospitals: When is 'good enough' good enough?
In the past, neither hospitals nor practicing physicians were accustomed ...
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Feb 18, 2013 | Bob Wachter, MD
Is the patient safety movement in danger of flickering out?
These should be the best of times for the patient safety movement. After all, it was concerns over ...
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Jan 22, 2013 | Bob Wachter, MD
Making clinicians get flu shots: More important than simply preventing the flu
I was recently speaking to the clinical leaders of a mid-sized hospital, and a senior ...
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Dec 11, 2012 | Bob Wachter, MD
Pay for performance in healthcare: Do we need less, more, or different?
The debate over pay for performance in healthcare gets progressively more interesting, and ...
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Nov 26, 2012 | Bob Wachter, MD
Denying reality about bad prognoses: Not a benign problem
Emerging evidence suggests that patients and their surrogates frequently engage in massive denial when it ...
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Oct 03, 2012 | Bob Wachter, MD
In JAMA: Abraham Verghese and I discuss the changing world of ward attendings
Senior attendings like to quip that the medical students seem to be getting younger ...
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Jun 19, 2012 | Bob Wachter, MD
Why the Supreme Court's healthcare decision will mean a lot...and not so much
Like waiting outside the Vatican for the puff of white smoke, the nation sits on ...
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Mar 14, 2011 | Bob Wachter, MD
Why Berwick Matters
Two cover stories in this week’s Time magazine debate a provocative question: Is America in decline?
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