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Posts Tagged ‘health insurance’

Podcast 155: What’s wrong with U.S. healthcare and what will save it?

Joe Elia • May 14th, 2012

Categories: Audio, Health care, Patient care, Policy, Uncategorized

(6 votes, average: 3.33 out of 5)

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 — [...]

Podcast 138: Why do kids in the U.S. get so many inappropriate broad-spectrum antibiotics?

Joe Elia • December 9th, 2011

Categories: Ambulatory care, antibiotic resistance, Drug prescribing, Patient care, Pediatrics, Uncategorized

(6 votes, average: 2.83 out of 5)

When kids go for ambulatory care, they get an antibiotic prescribed about 20% of the time. Half of those antibiotics are of the broad-spectrum variety. What are the factors leading up to this, and what are some resources to turn to for better information on this dangerous situation? Listen in to  this 27-minute podcast [...]