MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'finkelstein'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:51:53 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5159314&cid=t_321567_113_f&fid=38236&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.healthcareitnews.com%2Fblog%2Femergency-room-balancing-act There seems to be an undercurrent of debate going on with regard to emergency room wait times. I’ve come across a number of articles and blogs lately having to do with the growing trend of hospitals advertising the wait times of their ERs to the surrounding community. Healthcare IT is helping many to go mobile with these timely messages. Patients in need of emergency care can text their zip code to 4ER411 and receive a list of area hospitals and their ER wait times from Miami-based ER Texting. read more (Source: Healthcare IT News Blog) Healthcare IT News Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5159314 Thu, 25 Aug 2011 14:02:16 +0100 5159314 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5008142&cid=t_321567_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2F6usEuUaq3lA%2F By Michael F. CannonColumbia Business School economist Ray Fisman has a piece at Slate.com discussing the first-year results of the Oregon Health Insurance Experiment.  In brief, when Oregon transferred an average of $3,000 from taxpayers to poor people in the form of Medicaid coverage, it did those poor people some good. Fisman’s interpretation of the results is different from mine in mainly two respects.  First, I describe the one-year benefits of Medicaid coverage as modest; he says they’re “enormous.” A more fundamental difference concerns whether expanding Medicaid was a cost-effective use of the taxpayers’ money.  Fisman writes: Given the added expense, did the Medicaid expansion prove to be cost-effective? That is, did the treatment group actually... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5008142 Thu, 07 Jul 2011 15:18:54 +0100 5008142 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5008145&cid=t_321567_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FjXYSHkY0CKg%2F By Michael F. CannonThe Oregon Health Insurance Experiment is the first experiment since the dawn of time that randomly assigns some households to receive health insurance (Medicaid) for purposes of comparing their medical consumption, health outcomes, and financial security to similar households that do not receive Medicaid coverage.  Some of the nation’s top health economists have released the first batch of results from the OHIE. At National Review (Online), I summarize the OHIE’s first-year results and offer the following analysis: Supporters of President Obama’s health-care law may tout these benefits, but the OHIE does not provide the vindication they seek. First, despite being eligible for Medicaid, 13 percent of the control group had private health insurance — s... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5008145 Thu, 07 Jul 2011 12:46:38 +0100 5008145 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4789218&cid=t_321567_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FmFbW55VdKsw%2F By Michael F. CannonOver at The Incidental Economist, Austin Frakt challenges a couple of claims I made on NPR about Medicare reform.  (Here’s how NPR reported my comments in print.) My claims are pretty simple. If Medicare subsidizes enrollees by giving them a fixed amount of money, much like Social Security does, they would be more cost-conscious than they are under the current open-ended subsidy, because enrollees who avoid wasteful spending would themselves get to keep the savings.  Put more plainly, people spend their own money more carefully than they spend other people’s money. Health insurers and health care providers would compete to serve these cost-conscious Medicare enrollees on the basis of both cost and quality.  Prices would fall while quality improves. I&... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4789218 Wed, 04 May 2011 22:07:37 +0100 4789218 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3831357&cid=t_321567_87_f&fid=39187&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgetbetterhealth.com%2Fanatomy-101-are-you-up-to-snuff%2F2010.08.06 It’s time we get away from all of the serious nonsense and back to something I am far more comfortable with: Taking otherwise-useful information and twisting it into utter nonsense. Yes, it’s time to journey back to the wonderful world of the physical exam. My ongoing mission is to explore the human body from my unique (albeit moderately unstable) perspective. For an overview of my previous posts on the physical exam see this post which features Dick Chaney on a Segway (reason enough to click on the link). Please visit a psychiatry blog to aid in recovery once you have done so. My most recent post in this fine series covered the topic of psychics and about the examination of the hand. It was mainly about psychics examining the hand, but I did slip in a little doctor stuff to keep the ... Better Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3831357 Fri, 06 Aug 2010 12:00:05 +0100 3831357 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3142804&cid=t_321567_137_f&fid=35426&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FTheAlzheimersReadingRoom%2F%7E3%2F7avZttEuHU0%2Fi-remember-you.html by Max Wallack I remember you. We were sweet friends, No, loyal family. We shared and trusted Each shiny day for a novel adventure. I remember you. You look familiar. I see you in my disheveled mind. Is it really you? How can I be sure? Dark shadows creep across your face. But I think I know you. Why do you look so evil? Your sweaty hands are grasping claws To snatch away my puzzled mind. Don't hurt me. Let me escape The cackling demons pursuing me. Their fiery breath Burns holes in my memory. Your eyes stare, glacial and fiendish. I feel the stench of your wrath. Don't chisel at mind. At least, Leave my soul intact. Come no closer. I tremble and quake As the paleness of death surrounds me. I think I remember you, But who am I? Max Wallack is a student at Boston University Academy.... Alzheimer's Reading Room, The blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3142804 Tue, 05 Jan 2010 02:56:40 +0100 3142804 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2207929&cid=t_321567_122_f&fid=38275&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.drjonathanreed.co.uk%2Fwordpress%2F2009%2F02%2Fparenting-how-important-is-it%2F This report was about how unhappy children are today because of selfish parents.  In the column Daniel makes some simple points which I often think about myself when seeing children.  The key issue is the extent to which parents influence children’s behaviour and personality.  The points he makes are 1- children and parents share the same genes and therefore are likely to be somewhat alike to start with.  2- children who are difficult are going to influence the way their parents react to them.  It is easy to be an authoritative parent with a child who is easy to manage- the traffic is not all one way.  I happen to believe that parents do have an affect on their children but there are so many other issues affecting development as well.  The issues about genetics that Daniel r... Child Neuropsychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2207929 Wed, 04 Feb 2009 17:15:23 +0100 2207929 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1307875&cid=t_321567_150_f&fid=35777&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FPharmalot%2F%7E3%2F253106338%2F Well, this is one suggestion, anyway. Two professors from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology propose separating drug discovery from drug marketing - and then establishing a non-profit company to oversee funding for new meds. “Drug prices in the United States are higher than anywhere else in the world. Right now, the revenues from those drugs finance research and development of new drugs. We propose to reduce prices, not at the expense of innovation, but by changing the way innovation is financed,” says Peter Temin, an economics professor and co-author of “Reasonable Rx: Solving the Drug Price Crisis,” in a statement. “Nationally, if we keep the current structure, in 50 years only hedge fund managers will be able to afford prescription drugs. Drug develo... Pharmalot blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1307875 Mon, 17 Mar 2008 17:00:20 +0100 1307875