Does AAMC have an answer for the primary care shortage? No.

The December 5, 2012 issue of JAMA is its annual “medical education” issue, and contains a number of interesting studies and commentaries fo...

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Medicare: Consumer choice or choosing your poison? How about coverage for everyone?

It is now after December 7 th , and Medicare recipients have had their open enrollment period and made their choices for next year. Good or ...

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More on mammography: just because you don't like the results doesn't make research junk science

A recent study published in the New England Journal of Medicine , “Effect of three decades of screening mammography on breast-cancer inciden...

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Gaming the system: Integration of healthcare services can just raise costs, not quality

My last blog post addressed the promises, and challenges, posed by the creation of integrated health care plans (or their new incarnation, A...

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