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1. My Virtual Book Trail with “Public Health On Call” (opens the original)
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So I’ve been away for a bit too long — due to my hyper active course as well as a pile of book-related activities. And I’m back and sharing free access to a just-released podcast from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health’s terrific Public Health On Call series. This podcast, released on Sept. 21, is titled: U.S. Healthcare Failures: Is Neoliberalism to Blame? You can get direct and free
Feedback Loops, Climate Change, and Our Ailing Health and Medical Systems (opens the original)
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When it comes to new books these days, I’m only supposed to promote my own (use HTWN on the Hopkins Press site for a 30% price break!). Yet I can’t resist writing about others because too much great and essential reading keeps coming all the time.Today I’m transfixed on: Nature’s Echo: Harnessing Ancient Feedback Loops to Heal a Changing Planet, by Thomas
The little-understood roots of the American health care catastrophe (opens the original)
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This article appeared in the Ideas Section of today’s Boston Globe. It’s a compression of my 150,000 word book in to ~850 words. Whew! The book is: “America’s Wrong Turn: US Healthcare in the Neoliberal Era.” Please remember that you can get a 30% discount by ordering through the Johns Hopkins Press link above if you use the code HTWN. Meanwhile, over at Amazon, it’s listed as #1 in new books on health policy! Kind of
Why Do Some Nonprofit Hospitals Have So Much Money? (opens the original)
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I just published the following piece for the Petrie-Flom Center on Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School. It advances a premise from my new book, America’s Wrong Turn: US Healthcare in the Neoliberal Era, that health and medical system reform must address inequities involving not-for-profit hospitals and other medical systems in addition to those on the for-profit side. In the spirit of needing to understand the past to define the future, this article looks at how
Paying Attention to Hospital Quality of Care (opens the original)
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Two things in this post: 1. an update on the proposed Massachusetts pilot program for automated monitoring of adverse events in a set of MA hospitals; and 2. an essential reading on the current state of quality of care from NYU’s Sherry Glied. First, on May 9th, I posted “Preventing Medical Errors: Are Better Days Ahead?” This was about a proposed program to be run by the state’s Betsy Lehman Center to test “automated adverse event monitoring” of medical errors in a small set of Massachusetts ac
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