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Research Supremacy Myth Part Deux

Posted in Politics, research on October 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Before I can begin to explain what I mean by the fable that is our excellence in research, I have to share an anecdote.
A family friend who happens to be fantastic at helping people see the bigger picture (literally, it turns out) once shared with me the following:
He used to have this big picture on [...]

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The research supremacy myth

Posted in Politics, health care, research on October 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

One of the reasons cited for clinging to a bloated, dying, inefficient system of health care delivery, is the idea we lead the world in innovation.
Well, there’s something to that, we Americans have churned out an impressive stream of life-changing innovations in our time.
Medicine and pharmacology is not our greatest strength.
As much as we might [...]

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The devil you know

Posted in Kaiser Permanente, health care, research, the patient experience on September 17, 2009 | 2 Comments »

One of the latest trends I’m finding in trying to get Kaiser to do something, anything to deal with AD, is this tendency to scoff at the information that the current research is showing. Golden little nuggets like “oh, that’s just a bunch of research mumbo jumbo” or, “researchers like to think they know about [...]

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