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Aug 01, 2013 | Bob Wachter, MD
There are tens of thousands of policies in Medicare's policy manual, which makes for stiff competition for the "Most ...
May 30, 2013 | Bob Wachter, MD
I sometimes explain to medical students that they are entering a profession being transformed, like coal to ...
Apr 03, 2013 | Bob Wachter, MD
In the past, neither hospitals nor practicing physicians were accustomed ...
Feb 18, 2013 | Bob Wachter, MD
These should be the best of times for the patient safety movement. After all, it was concerns over ...
Jan 22, 2013 | Bob Wachter, MD
I was recently speaking to the clinical leaders of a mid-sized hospital, and a senior ...
Dec 11, 2012 | Bob Wachter, MD
The debate over pay for performance in healthcare gets progressively more interesting, and ...
Nov 26, 2012 | Bob Wachter, MD
Emerging evidence suggests that patients and their surrogates frequently engage in massive denial when it ...
Oct 03, 2012 | Bob Wachter, MD
Senior attendings like to quip that the medical students seem to be getting younger ...
Jun 19, 2012 | Bob Wachter, MD
Like waiting outside the Vatican for the puff of white smoke, the nation sits on ...
Mar 14, 2011 | Bob Wachter, MD
Two cover stories in this week’s Time magazine debate a provocative question: Is America in decline?