Whenever studies documenting the rising use of stimulants for children in the Western world make headlines, the medical community goes through a significant amount of word twisting to address the […]
US healthcare
William Cayley: Resistance is futile (?)
Recent years have seen a lot of optimistic talk and writing about the “Patient Centered Medical Home”, the promise of population registries and electronic health records for preventing and managing […]
Alejandro Madrazo Lajous: Little Uruguay’s big experiment
All eyes are on the tiny South American nation of Uruguay this week following its historic approval for the world’s first nationally controlled marijuana market. While the plan still […]
Michael Barry: Aligning incentives to support shared decision making in the United States
Shared decision making (SDM) between clinicians and patients is riding high in clinical and health policy circles in the United States. SDM is featured in several sections of the Affordable […]
Jane Parry: Why are we so resistant to calling sugar the enemy?
Sparing developing countries the fate of obesity associated diseases that plague the developed world is currently one of the most pressing global public health issues. Before we export wholesale the […]
William Cayley: Continuity—in and out of hospital in the US
We’re seeing a resurgence in primary care in the US—or are we? In a recent post, Domhnall MacAuley comments on the way primary care seems to have “emerged from the […]
Jen Gunter: The great Kate wait is a lesson for maternal health providers and pregnant women alike
The press and much of the world, or so it seems, has been on edge waiting for the Duchess of Cambridge to go into labor and finally that day has […]
Krishna Chinthapalli: The birth and death of the Liverpool Care Pathway
Birth of the pathway A few miles west of Mont Blanc, eighty years ago, Marie Curie arrived at a sanatorium in the foothills of the Alps to spend her final […]
Richard Smith: Race relations in Florida
Those of us outside the US think of holidays, sun, Disney, and orange juice when we think of Florida. We don’t even think of it as part of the slavery, […]
Deon Louw: The doctor, the environmentalist, and the gospel of sustainable healthcare
Let’s be honest. Lester Brown sounds like the name of a musician from the Deep South. In fact, Brown is an acclaimed scientist and I had the pleasure of attending […]