Such a no-brainer: If patients who receive care at Hospital A are more likely to get readmitted to the hospital 10, 20 or 30 days after discharge than patients in Hospital B, then Hospital A must be doing something wrong. Perhaps clinicians at that hospital are less adept at diagnosing and managing patients’ problems. Perhaps…
Who doesn’t want to get smarter? The Brain Gym Company claims to have found a number of ways people can attain all these goals. But their wacky mixture of pseudo-science and balderdash is more a function of bamboozlement through jargon than of any real proof that the program works.
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When patients with diabetes come to the doctor’s office, it is important for their clinicians to take a look at their feet. Many, if not most, foot amputations among people with diabetes would be prevented with this simple exam, an exam that will identify problems early enough to prevent them from progressing. But us busy…
Here is a link to a New Yorker website article, exploring the challenges of helping patients understand their medical decisions. The author, a physician, makes mention of some of my research. But that’s not the only reason I’m pointing towards the article. 🙂 (Click here to view comments)
I spoke the other day to Melissa Dahl, a writer for New York Magazine. She wrote a really nice piece on what medical professionals call “contralateral prophylactic mastectomy” – when a woman with breast cancer chooses not only to remove the affected breast, but also the unaffected breast in order to reduce the chance of…
In a recent blog post, David Berreby writes about some work that George Loewenstein and I have done on people’s inability to predict how illness or disability will make them feel, and what this inability means for things like “pain and suffering” awards from juries. Thought you might find the blog interesting. Here is the…