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Joe Elia • May 14th, 2013
Alasdair Conn, chief of emergency services at Massachusetts General Hospital and an associate professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School continues our series on the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombings. Thank you for listening. Do let us know what you think. Joe Elia Links: Dr. Conn’s essay in the Annals of Internal Medicine [...]
Joe Elia • May 9th, 2013
Thank you for your questions about the status of Clinical Conversations. We’re edging our way back toward a normal schedule with this, the first of a planned multipart series on the lessons learned in the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombings. Ron M. Walls, professor and chair of the department of emergency medicine at [...]
Joe Elia • November 10th, 2012
Running time: 20 min. In some diseases there are two diagnoses to make: the clinical diagnosis and the diagnosis of what the patient’s treatment preference is. The first is hard enough to make, and the widening choice of treatment choices complicates the second. Welcome to the task of “preference diagnosis,” which can lead to [...]
Joe Elia • June 26th, 2012
A chat with clinician-essayist Cameron Page, whose essay “They Paved Paradise and Put Up a Parking Lot” appears in this month’s Health Affairs. Our conversation explores the connections in medicine that link outside the clinic walls, with stops along the way at William Carlos Williams, Richard Seltzer, the Yankees, and more. We get around [...]
Joe Elia • May 20th, 2012
Dr. Peter Bach is the first author on a new JAMA analysis of the benefits and harms of using low-dose CT screening for lung cancer. The American College of Chest Physicians and the American Society of Clinical Oncology requested the systematic review to assist them in drawing up a clinical guideline. Join us in [...]
Joe Elia • May 14th, 2012
Dr. Arnold Relman, longtime observer of the U.S. healthcare system and editor emeritus of the New England Journal of Medicine, proposes two major reforms: First, private insurance companies should leave the healthcare field, and second, physicians should organize into multispecialty practices. His proposals, just published in BMJ, grow out of his alarmed observation — [...]
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