When Preventative Medicine Doesn’t Prevent

The Key to the Art of Medicine

Very early on in my career I was taught that there is both a science of medicine and an art of medicine. The science of medicine is relatively straight forward. It involves the ability to do a comprehensive history and physical exam, develop a differential diagnosis,...
When Preventative Medicine Doesn’t Prevent

How well is my hospital performing?

How well is my hospital performing?  It depends upon whom you ask. ….But we are still missing the point. There was an article in this month’s Health Affairs  that looked at something that should have been addressed a long time ago:  The authors compared...