Business of Medicine

Medical Malpractice and Rhinology

Although expenses related to medical malpractice are often seen as a cost of doing business, the experience of litigation is a personal, as well as a professional assault. A malpractice suit attacks a physician’s integrity and confidence.

Watchful Waiting and OME

I would like to comment on your article Watchful Waiting May Be the Best Strategy, by Sheri Polley, in the November 2006 issue of ENToday.

State Efforts Toward Universal Coverage: Part 2 of a series

With the federal government shouldering 45% of health care costs through five huge entitlements (see ENToday, April 2007) and a large federal deficit, the chance of politicians enacting a new federal entitlement for universal health insurance coverage is as likely as their conducting a smear-free political campaign.

Health Services Research: Trying to Fix a Broken System

Few could argue credibly that America, which outspends all other countries on health care, has the world’s best-trained physicians, the best-equipped hospitals and incomparable technical innovation, should not have the world’s best health care system.