"Americans argue over insurance while Singaporeans keep perfecting the delivery of care." says Dr. Aaron Carroll. The following originally appeared on TheUpshot (copyright 2019, The New York Times Company). Singapore’s health care system is sometimes held up as an example of excellence, and as a possible model for what could come next in the...
The following originally appeared on The Upshot (copyright 2019, The New York Times Company). A panel of health policy experts helps you make decisions along five key dimensions. “Medicare for all” is popular, and not just among Democrats. Most Republicans favor giving people under 65 at least the choice to buy into Medicare. But when people hear arguments...
The world of healthcare has moved from simple, to complicated, to complex, requiring leaders who work together, collaborate, and compromise to solve problems. For many physicians, the problem is that they’ve never received leadership training. Most of their training is around taking individual tests and written or oral exams. These...
The gold standard of medical research, the randomized controlled trial, has been taking a bit of a beating lately. An entire issue of the journal Social Science and Medicine was recently devoted to it, with many articles pointing to shortcomings. Others have argued that randomized controlled trials often can’t address the questions that patients and...
Congrats to SANDY CARTER #23 selected to join Business Insider's list of the 39 most powerful female engineers of 2018. These are women with engineering backgrounds who are running big business units at important companies, are building impressive up-and-coming technologies, or acting as leaders and role models in the tech...