A historic chart of health care spending exposes the culprit in rising costs: code-based fee-for-service medicine. To Be Notified When the Book Is Available for Purchase Go Here Cost is the big factor. Cost is why we can’t have nice things. The overwhelmingly vast...
Atul Gawande’s new New Yorker article, “Overkill: America’s Epidemic of Unnecessary Care,” brilliantly lays out why and how we are getting so much overtesting, overdiagnosis, and overtreatment — testing that is inappropriate, not helpful, and...
In Des Moines, brides are posing in the spring sun under the profusion of flowering trees in the Arboretum and families are strolling the path around Gray’s Lake. Up in the cavernous Veterans Memorial Convention Center, UnityPoint is wrapping up its Leadership...
Dateline: Lahinch, County Clare, Ireland I’m sitting over the seawall and embankments of this seaside town in the west of Ireland, watching the Atlantic waves crash and dribble onto the shingle in what must be their most peaceful mood on a surprisingly warm April...
