Physician, Heel Thyself
By THERESA BROWN
Pittsburgh
IT was morning rounds in the hospital and the entire medical team stood in the patient’s room. A test result was late, and the patient, a friendly, middle-aged man, jokingly asked his doctor whom he should yell at.
Turning and pointing at the patient’s nurse, the doctor replied, “If you want to scream at anyone, scream at her.”
This vignette is not a scene from the medical drama “House,” nor did it take place 30 years ago, when nurses were considered subservient to doctors. Rather, it happened just a few months ago, at my hospital, to me.
FIELDS OF DREAMS
Doctors, nurses aren’t the only ones who are finding work in health care
Battle Over Health Care Law Shifts to Federal Appellate Courts
By KEVIN SACK
A five-week flurry of federal appellate hearings on the constitutionality of the Obama health care law kicks off Tuesday in Richmond, Va., beginning the second round of a race to the Supreme Court among a multitude of litigants eager to strike down the president’s signature domestic achievement.
Seeking Business, States Loosen Insurance Rules
By MARY WILLIAMS WALSH and LOUISE STORY
Companies looking to do business in secret once had to travel to places like the Cayman Islands or Bermuda.
Today, all it takes is a trip to Vermont.
Cardiac diagnoses get boost from UMass
Blood pressure sensor developed in Lowell could be lucrative for university
On Medicare, reverting to a well-worn strategy
By Editorial,
DEMOCRATS MAY BE feeling smug about their campaign against the House Republican budget plan, and as a matter of politics, they’re no doubt right. If the goal is to deal with the long-term fiscal challenge, though, the Democrats’ political success is apt only to prolong the gridlock and make the eventual solution that much more painful.
MONDAY, MAY 9, 2011
Neither the Republicans Nor the Democrats Want to Face the Provider Cost Problem But Both Want to Dump the Problem on the Consumer
A key piece of Paul Ryan’s deficit reduction plan is to change Medicare as we know it. It appears his bold Medicare premium support proposal is failing to gain traction--it is dead as part of any deficit reduction deal this year. Worse, his Medicare proposal looks to be giving Democrats lots of political ammunition for the 2012 elections.
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