The Wall Street Journal
The Future of Doctoring
Large health-care systems are defining new models of primary care, and tech is changing how the work of doctors is managed. How are doctors adjusting, and how do we educate the next generation to work in this new environment?
Healthcare Triage
Firearms and Suicide: Guns and Public Health Part 3
We continue our special look at guns and public health in the United States. This week, we're looking at how easily accessible firearms complicate the suicide rate in the United States. While people have always committed suicide, guns...
Healthcare Triage
More Than Just a Haircut: The Role of Barbershops in Healthcare
Barbershops have long played a significant social, economic, and cultural role in African-American life. Barbershops foster both confidentiality and camaraderie, which seems like a good environment to talk to men about hypertension.
Healthcare Triage
Doctors, Money, and Conflicts of Interest
I'm a doctor. My father is a doctor. My colleagues are doctors, the people I train are doctors, lots and lots of my friends are doctors. But that doesn't meant that doctors sometimes aren't blind to certain issues like their own...
Healthcare Triage
The Malpractice System Doesn't Deter Malpractice
Research indicates that the malpractice system in the United States doesn't do a lot to deter malpractice. There are several recent studies about malpractice that look at how many doctors have malpractice claims against them, and what...
Healthcare Triage
It's Hard to Change Physician Behavior: Healthcare Triage News
Like some kind of perpetual motion machine, it's hard to get physicians to change their behavior to do stuff. It's even harder to get them to change their behavior to stop doing stuff. This is Healthcare Triage News.
Healthcare Triage
Residency and the 80 Hour Work Week
Performative overwork is more and more common in the United States, and long hours have long been the norm in medicine. During residency, doctors have traditionally been asked to work for up to 100 hours per week. A rule in 2003 capped...
The Wall Street Journal
Demo: Tech to Spot Covid-19
Connor Landgraf, CEO of Eko and Caesar Djavaherian of Carbon Health discuss the promise of remote medical testing and care at WSJ Tech Health.
Healthcare Triage
Nobody Uses Sunscreen Right, and We Still Don't Pay Doctors Equally
Studies show that sunscreen is too expensive, and it probably encourages people not to use enough. Also, unequal pay for women is still very much a thing in medicine.
PBS
Why Do We Wash Our Hands After Going to the Bathroom?
We all know that washing your hands it's one of the best ways to prevent germs from spreading. But until relatively recently hand washing was something relegated primarily to religious rituals and cultural ceremonies. And the first...
Healthcare Triage
The History of Vaccine Backlash Part 1
Part four of our six-part series on vaccinations, supported by the National Institute for Health Care Management Foundation. It turns out, people have been resistant to the idea of vaccines pretty much since vaccines were invented. This...
Healthcare Triage
Guns, Suicide, and Legislating the Doctor-Patient Relationship
Guns are one of those topics that really divide Americans. It's hard to have a calm, evidence-based discussion. But one area where we really need to be able to do that is in the pediatrician's office. Why? That's the topic of this week's...
TLDR News
The Secret Plan for the Queen's Death - TLDR News
Unfortunately, the Queen's passing is inevitable, and as such the British government, media and public have been preparing for decades. So in this video we uncover some of those plans and explain what you can expect when the queen does...
Healthcare Triage
Empowering Pharmacists to Address Excess Medications
For a lot of patients, prescriptions build up over time, and older people end up taking A LOT of different drugs. Doctors don't always have the time or will to assess these mounting prescriptions. Empowering pharmacists to recommend...
Healthcare Triage
Stop It! Why It's Tough to get Doctors to Drop Treatments
It takes a lot of ongoing training to get doctors to take up new treatments and techniques in their practice. But it turns out it's REALLY difficult to get docs to stop using treatments when later studies show that treatment to be...
Healthcare Triage
The Doctor Shortage in the US: Is It a Real Thing?
Many people have to wait too long to see a doctor. And it could get worse. If, as many people believe, we have a shortage of doctors in the United States, then it follows that we can fix this only by training and hiring more physicians.
Healthcare Triage
Sleep Deprivation and its Weird Effects on the Mind and Body
Last week we talked about sleep. We talked about how much the average person needs, and how much they get. We also talked about how you can't just rely on "averages" to determine how much you need. Sleep in a personal thing, and we all...
Weird History
How One Doctor Attempted To Get Peers To Wash Hands
In the 19th century, physicians argued that Victorian hospitals offered modern, scientific care. But in Vienna, one doctor realized physicians were inadvertently ending the lives of their patients. That's because 19th-century medical...
Healthcare Triage
How Can Doctors Avoid Malpractice Suits? Be Nice
Why do doctors get sued? How can malpractice suits be avoided? It turns out, the answer may be simple. Defensive medicine refers to the idea that doctors are forced to order extra tests, perform extra procedures, or push for more office...
Healthcare Triage
Choosing Wisely and Encouraging Effective Treatment
Whenever I give a talk on the sorry state of the US health care system, someone asks me what we should do. My first comment is always something along the lines of "if we knew what to do, we'd have already done it". But if I'm pushed, I...
Healthcare Triage
Money Isn’t the Only Thing That Can Bias Research
Recent news articles have brought renewed attention to financial conflicts of interest in medical science but that should not lead us to ignore other conflicts that may be equally or even more important. Career advancement and reputation...
Weird History
A Day In the Life Living With the Plague
The Black Death changed the world. As the most profound epidemic in human history, the plague claimed the lives of millions, with nearly half of Europe's population perishing from the disease. Some feared they were living through the...
Curated Video
Hackers in Change Healthcare attack receive $22M in alleged ransom
The hackers behind the continuing ransomware attack affecting U.S. pharmacies received a payment believed to be a ransom for stolen data.
Bloomberg
Siemens Healthineers CEO Says China Decoupling Completed
Siemens Healthineers CEO Bernd Montag says the firm has ring-fenced its Chinese supply chain from other regions, a move intended to shield the company's operations from escalating trade and geopolitical tensions. Speaking exclusively to...