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Posts Tagged ‘U.S. Congress’

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 79: Prostate cancer, patients’ consultations, and the treatments they receive

Joe Elia • March 19th, 2010

Categories: Audio, Prostate cancer, treatment choice, Uncategorized

(5 votes, average: 4.80 out of 5)

Patients who consult urologists only are more likely to get radical prostatectomy, and those who consult both urologists and radiation oncologists are more likely to get radiation. Those who see internists are more likely to receive watchful waiting. What are all these facts trying to tell us? Our conversation is with the principal authors of [...]