Tag: doctors kill

04 May 2008

Why EMR Excite Me: The Trouble with Normal

Apparently, it doesn’t get funding:
Why Medicine Should Care Less About ‘Sick,’ More About ‘Normal’
If you had died 50 years ago, your body would have stood a pretty good chance of serving science. In the 1960s, autopsy rates at US hospitals exceeded 50 percent. Pathologists weren’t necessarily looking for what killed people — they were taking [...]

20 Dec 2007

Cut Health Care to Save Lives

Or thereabouts. Another post in the theme of “Doctors Kill.” Click the link to read the full article. I really need to get down and dirty with some health care data one of these days. Too bad not all data is open, and use of it is considered plagiarism.

No. 1 Book, and It Offers [...]