Healthy as a Horse No More: My Recent Patient Experience
I knew that I would come to rue the day I wrote my post on my EKG claiming I was a healthy individual with no apparent illnesses. On November 3, I had my first surgery in 40 years – a procedure for a...
View ArticleQuestioning the Price
Costs of Care (Twitter: @CostsOfCare), where this post was originally published, is a Boston-based, non-profit organization that helps caregivers deflate medical bills and provide high value care. As...
View ArticleRecommended Reading: February 9 – 15
This week’s Recommended Reading includes new articles by ABIM staff and Foundation Trustees, along with a study of common professionalism “dilemmas”: In the latest issue of Health Affairs, ABIM staff...
View ArticleIncurable and Irreversible
My Argentinean mother-in-law is 95 years old and suffers from advancing dementia. She has lived with my sister-in-law for the last eight years and both of her daughters are considered her caregivers....
View ArticleChoosing Wisely®: The Trials and Tribulations of Patients Against Waste
In last week’s New York Times article by Elisabeth Rosenthal, “Patients’ Costs Skyrocket; Specialists’ Income Soar,” we read about the plight of Kim Little, who lives 30 miles from Little Rock,...
View ArticleFor Patient-Centered Care, Check the (Road) Map
We all talk about “patient-centered care” without having a clear vision or definition of what it is or means. Thus I was honored to have the ABIM Foundation be one of the many organizations the Gordon...
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