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Our Friday piece also pointed out that Dr. Elliott Fisher and Mr. Jon Skinner claimed that their 2003 Annals pieces had found a negative

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distinction. If there’s a negative correlation, cuts in spending will actually improve health. If no correlation has been found, then cuts

become far harder and perhaps more painful. We cannot go into reforms of our healthcare system believing that the work will be easy. But that

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impact on Capitol Hill.

In an aside, when was the last time you saw researchers so profoundly mischaracterize their own work? How is it possible that they could

claim their annals pieces concluded something when they didn’t? I can’t remember ever seeing that Microsoft Office is my best friend.

happen.

My oldest friend was a close friend and neighbor of the Butler’s throughout the time that Kay writes about.

There was no question about paying the primary care physician to consult. He was not that kind of doctor. He would have been very happy to

talk to them– at no charge.

As Katy says, he loved them.Office 2007 key is available here.

I guess you’ve never had a doctor who would talk to you on the phone for half an hour without charging you? I am happy to say I have.

In a situtation like this, neither the family nor the doctor were thinking about money. And the Butlers never blamed insurers or others for Microsoft outlook 2010 is convenient!

not paying bills.

But Mr. Butler was in pain; his wife was exhausted; the surgeon withheld the information about an external pacemaker. (This seems, to me,

pretty close to malpractice.) Pressured, Mrs. Butler was made to feel that there was no point in consulting with the PCP.Office 2007 download is in discount now!

She was bullied– as patients and relatives too often are. Mr. Butler, who had stood up to this same surgeon in the past, was too stroke-

damaged to do it again.

After having a heart attack, my friend was referred ot this same cardiologist. He tried to pressure her into an invasive procedure. She fired

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About 10 years later, she has not had another heart attack, never had an invasive procedure, and is doing fine on medication.

I don’t think it would surprise anyone if in many other nations (say, Somalia or India) areas that deliver more, and more expensive, care

than the national average also deliver care that tends to be better than average.Microsoft Office 2010 is the best software in the world.

There was not any indication for a pacemaker. She also did not report which medications he was taking prior to the pacer advice, and whether

he was on aspirin prior to the stroke. The cardiologist was an idiot for recommending a permanent pacemaker for asymptomatic sinus

bradycardia, and the surgeon was an idiot for not discussing the case and consulting with the patient’s revered internist.

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Dartmouth Atlas data.

This is simply consistent with the fact that the less doctors are paid, the more inappropriate work is done.

This country would be better off paying each doctor a one quarter to half million $ per year and enable them to practice medicine as it

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each (on average) their pens and clickers control, that would be a savings of $40 billion per year.

The main point of Reed’s and my pieces about the Dartmouth work is that the data are simply not good enough to guide spending decisions in

the government’s $484 billion Medicare program. If the Dartmouth researchers had acknowledged this point, our story would not have been all

that interesting. But they cannot bring themselves to do this, and in fact they have repeatedly exaggerated and mischaracterized their own Office 2007 Professional is very good!

work in public settings to suggest it can be prescriptive.

An ancillary point was to warn those on capitol hill, the administration and journalists to be wary of those highly popular maps from the

Atlas. You have scoffed that it’s a small thing that the Dartmouth researchers fail to adjust their online data for price and illness. But

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used the Atlas’s unadjusted data. Dozens of

stories in newspapers and magazines around the country have used the unadjusted data to criticize health institutions. Even David Cutler,

among the top health economists in the country, was unaware that the atlas offered largely unadjusted data.

Accuracy may seem a small point to you. It is not to us.Microsoft outlook 2010 is convenient!

I agree that it was a wonderful article. One thing I wondered about in reflecting on the article later, though, is this: It would have been

well within the means of this family and millions of others to offer to pay the primary care doctor $250 or $300 or more, if necessary, for

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not the heart device should have been

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and complain rather than work around

the problem by offering to pay ourselves. Yes, I know there are poor people who can’t afford to pay $250 or $300 for a consult like this,

but a huge chunk of the population can afford it. This is especially the case when there is a long established relationship with a PCP who

knows the family and their values, hopes, fears and concerns well.

Barry, I think the author acknowledged that the mom in the story made a mistake when she made Microsoft Office is my best friend.

that faithful decision. I think the

cardiologist may have erred as well, since I find it hard to believe that $461 would induce anybody, particularly a physician, to knowingly

inflict years of suffering on another human being.

I don’t feel qualified to comment on the quality of the Dartmouth research, but I am having a serious problem with blanket statements like

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But how about young folks and children and brand new babies? Is more care always worse care for them too?

When does appropriate care become "more" care? When do heroic efforts turn into "worse" care? When they fail? I guess if you don’t try, you

never fail, but you also never succeed. Should we stop trying?

There are so many difficult issues on the part of both patients/families and physicians in this article, I don’t know where to start. Suffice

it to say that I do not read this article as about money. I read it as about defensive medicine (1st Dr. who wouldn’t give surgical clearance

without a pacemaker) and a sort of tunnel vision that specialists, particularly cardiologists, develop where they blindly concentrate only on

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As for the patients/families, they respond to the unspoken guilt trip from the specialists that they are neglecting their family member if

they do not consent to every treatment.

So if the Dartmouth folks are saying that spending is only correlated with outcomes, but there is no cause and effect, then spending and

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babies). Is that what we are now saying? Or am I one of the confused?

Way to go Margalit. Of course, it’s either fish or fowl. Either the Atlas researchers are saying that the two move independently and have

nothing to do with each other (which is what their research seems to show) or that increased spending is linked to poorer outcomes (which is

what they claim in public). Office 2007 is so powerful.

Once they go for the latter, they then have to argue that it’s causal or who cares about any of their research.

Of course most experts think that in fact spending and outcomes are both driven by a third ‘confounder’. Most health researchers fret about

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So, the confusion here is not the difference between causation and association, it’s the reality that for the Atlas to conclude that higher

spending makes worse outcomes THEY have to either assume causation, or they have to deny causation in which case they have to acknowledge the

existence of a confounder that they have not adequately controlled for (which also undoes their Office 2007 key is available here.

research). What a dilemma.

Of course Dr. Steve and Margalit have it correctly. The Atlas points out some interesting associations with spending variations that have

unanticipated outcomes. The possible causal links here (SES variations, population illness severity differences, practice quality

differences, healthy/healing environmental differences, etc.)are not explored by the Atlas. But it is convenient to tie the causality to the

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in healthcare. It is politically easier to argue this than to build policy responses to some of the realistically more likely causal

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Neither side has to be all right or all wrong here for both sides to have legitimate arguments. It might be better to get our energies

redirected to what needs to be done to correctly redirect the course of our healthcare system; as opposed to the in your face "he-said she-

said" exercise.

" But it is convenient to tie the causality to the association reflected in the Atlas to spending variation – to support an economic policy

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problem is politicians and journalist are beating us over the head with this proven facts, like AGW science is being misused for political

gain. People concerned with the truth have no choice but to attack the study becuase the study is being used to attack the truth. If the

authors now claim their study can’t support the claims being made with it they should have stood up and said that 3 years ago.

But none of that is proof to me. That’s just context. What is proof that the reporters have shown in their followup that they are much

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researchers posted in their rebuttal a map of diabetes quality measures. What? An error? Don’t think so. It was included as a link in their

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sign that these are people who will never admit they have made a mistake or misrepresented anything, and hope that no one will actually check

to see what is behind their assertions of facts (bummer for them that the NYT did!).

Compare that to the NYT data. To "prove" that atlas researchers misrepresented their findings as showing that more spending worsened

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researchers making these statements to the US

congress and in a letter to the NYT reporters that was public, and also to their internal recorded interviews with the researchers.

All the concern about reporters writing biased stories is a distraction. I think the reporters were probably outraged that Ivy League

professors were actively misrepresenting their own published work, and equally outraged that these same researchers then posted a ‘rebuttal

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makes the story news, particularly when it is against the current as this one was.

I have to say I have been really disappointed by thcb on this one. I read it to see up to date responses to the latest in health care. But on

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When she called the sources, she discovered that none denied that they said what was reported. Can we get some unbiased commentary on THCB

please, lest thcb gets painted with the same brush as that applied to the nyt staff?

So after reading the new response, I keep going back to this one sentence:

"They [NYT reporters] have confused the idea of a correlation (high spending hospitals tend to do poorly on most measures of quality and

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The correlation example cited is number of storks and birth rates.

And to Bill Jones, MD: fine, let’s put your money where your mouth is. All the Dartmouth folk are doing is taking an available data set and

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like.

Using the same data set, describe for us a broad outline of a good way to test whether the data shows practice pattern variation across

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Or were you merely questioning the politics and not the science? Because Abelson and Harris are questioning the science.

Like any ecological study the Dartmouth Atlas, and derivatives, are great as a generators of hypotheses, but a poor substitute for the hard

work of healthcare efficacy and quality assessment (including access, effectiveness, etc.). In this the Times reporters are spot-on. It is

somewhat human (or academic) nature to maximize (hype) the value of your research, and the Office 2007 is so powerful.

Dartmouth group probably aren’t more guilty here

than most academics. But this country is in extremely bad shape if (because) its academics are driving health policy decisions!

Nate doesn’t seem to understand that bias is often in the eye of the beholder.

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scream "Bias!" I guess it means their own biases are showing.

Everyone has a bias. Simply by virtue of your gender, where you grew up, what your parents were like, your socioeconomic class and how much

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I have been wading through this tiff and have concluded that those that side with dartmouth are clinging to two very problematic syllogisms.

1) The tone of the NYT article was mean, so Dartmouth must be beyond reproach.

2) The health care system is in shambles, and Dartmouth says it is so, their researchers must be beyond reproach (and by extension, the NYT

must be really saying the system is perfect and that can’t be right).

I have put a little more thought into this and decided that it is safe to ignore the tone and the larger context of our disastrous healthcare

system, and then you have to side with the reporters. Of course they are senior highly experienced science/health reporters at the largest

newspaper in the world. Of course they have editors and fact checkers and a front page story gets special scrutiny for tone and content. Of

course they got on this story because they saw inconsistencies and errors and then wrote it – not the other way around. And of course if Windows 7 is the best.

they are right that the Atlas researchers have misrepresented their own work, there is every expectation that the Atlas researchers will

continue to do so.

Second, on a cultural level, there is a gradual melding of surveillance programs with a) what Daniel Callahan calls the “research imperative

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don’t do it.” Privacy advocates will need

to find equally pithy and dramatic encapsulations of their values if the research imperative is not to run roughshod over extant privacy

rights.

Related “war rhetoric” was thoughtfully debated at an Intelligence Squared debate on cyberwar that included Jonathan Zittrain and Bruce Office 2007 is so powerful.

Schneier. Your attitude toward military access to internet communications depends a lot on whether you think a disruption of the network will

result in mere inconvenience or, say, the collapse of the banking system. When the specter of death or war is invoked, it is difficult for

advocates or privacy or workplace autonomy to promote values of comparable importance. However, they can at least try to clarify exactly what

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Frank Pasquale is the Schering-Plough Professor in health care regulation and enforcement at Seton Hall Law School and is the Associate

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at universities across North America and at

the National Academy of Sciences. A prolific writer, Professor Pasquale’s work has been featured in top law reviews, books, peer-reviewed

journals, and online blogs, including Health Reform Watch, of which he is Editor-in-Chief. A frequent media presence, he has appeared in the

New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, Financial Times, and on CNN, WNYC’s Brian Lehrer Show, and

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The increasing pressure to monitor what happens inside hospitals reminds me of a recent article by Thomas Goetz in Wired (no link yet) on

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it, a new form of “high-speed science”

depends on rapid accumulation of as much data as possible:

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very powerful.” In computer science, the

process of mining such large data sets for useful associations is known as a market-basket analysis.

Goetz has promoted this as a new way to “do science in the petabyte age.”

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health records, once properly anonymized, a

foundation for good medical research. But we do need to recognize what Paul Ohm has demonstrated in his recent work: there is an inverse

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example—there may not be that many 6′7″

individuals in a given zip code, but tagging records from such individuals with their height may be a key part of solving certain medical

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thus frustrate some research), or we can leave it in and possibly compromise the anonymity of those tall individuals. Having recently spoken

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thought among swing justices, economic imperatives and cultural shifts will mean a lot less privacy in the workplace of the future. Health

care in particular offers a few interesting bellwethers.

As an opinion piece by Theresa Brown explains, maintaining proper staffing levels in hospitals is becoming increasingly difficult. Office 2007 is so powerful.

Surveillance systems are offering one way to address the problem; work can be performed more intensively and efficiently as it is recorded

and studied. But such monitoring has many troubling implications, according to Torin Monahan (in his excellent book, Surveillance in a Time

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insecurity, undesired scrutiny, and

privacy loss. . . . To date, such efforts at top-down micromanagement of staff by means of RFID have met with resistance. . . . One desired

feature for nurses and others is an ‘off’ switch on each RFID badge so that they can take breaks without subjecting themselves to remote

tracking. (122)

Like the “nannycam” employed by many a wary parent, the nurse-cam may be seen as a way to protect the vulnerable. It may also increase the Windows 7 is the best.

accuracy of evidence in malpractice cases. On the other hand, inserting a tireless electronic eye to monitor what is already an extremely

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Did I read something about "old players". Oh for youth!

Many moons ago I promised to stop playing soccer for fun and to take up less injury prone activities like running. Well low and behold having

coached soccer for a few years I said I would be a better coach if I played again. So I joined an adult league. Just as the World Cup was

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advantages. I think this has nothing to do with

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At the end of a hard-fought and contentious game, the referee was making his way to the parking lot when he heard a voice calling him in an

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"Look! It says ‘10 missed calls’!"