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This article from NPR caught my attention: Does taking time for compassion make doctors better at their jobs? This is something I feel strongly about, and is really the impetus for this blog.  My gut feeling is that helping providers improve their communications skills so they can really connect with patients helps BOTH patients andRead more

Armed with the belief that as our population ages there will be a continued and growing need for palliative medicine physicians, there is concern that fellowship programs will not be able to keep up.  An article in the Journal of Pain and Symptom Management (one of the main palliative medicine journals)  tries to quantify theRead more

I have long thought that a future economist will look back and conclude that one of the principal drivers of the explosion in US health care expenditures was the misguided decision to dramatically cut provider reimbursements for office visits.  The result was greater remuneration for physicians who performed procedures and operations.  This shift really impactedRead more