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Please let the zillions of people still fogging into my hometown (an Austin suburb) know!

Funding is mostly controlled by the federal government, via Medicare and Medicaid, and if I am not mistaken the funding levels are set by Congress.

I am a doctor and I run a graduate medical education program. The constraining resource is generally funding, not limits imposed by ACGME. For example, my program is ACGME-approved…

In this conversation, it’s important to distinguish science itself (which, along with facts, are already under attack in our politics) from failings of the research industry .

You are right, to an extent. Health systems and EHR vendors both have historically had an economic disincentive to share data. Think “ecosystem lock-in”. My impression is that thin…

Couple of points: The 21st Century Cures Act has recently expanded rules for information portability, which will make it much easier to get access to your data in the future. The c…

I'm also a physician. I am generally satisfied with my work, but I do feel distressed by what feels to me like erosion of the social contract between doctors and society that flour…

The limiting factor to creating more skilled physicians is not medical school admissions. It's residency training slots. Most residency training slots rely on federal government fu…

The issue of positive predictive value versus specificity comes up almost every day in my work as a pathologist. There is widespread misunderstanding, and in my own anecdotal exper…

I am doing the same thing without the HDMI audio extractor. The Chromecast is plugged directly into an HDMI port on the receiver. It works fine. Maybe whether the extractor is nece…

Whether it will work seamlessly may depend on the receiver, but I have a Chromecast plugged into an HDMI port on my Yamaha unit. (Note, there is nothing plugged into the HDMI out p…

Don't think so. I think it'd be the same force as it would be anchored, just distributed along more of the rope.

As long as Rdio isn't in the same boat, we'll be OK.

I can tell you why I use the NY times mobile site instead of the Android app on my Galaxy Nexus: the ads. The ad on the mobile app stays on the screen when you scroll the content. …

I am really starting to like Google docs as a possible Evernote replacement, as soon as they improve their offline editing support. One thing I can't figure out is how to change th…

I actually like the ribbon, especially when working on tables, charts, and the like. My only complaint is that it takes up so much vertical screen real estate.

Yes, I think you're right. I guess my feeling is that I would rather pay for the service. That way I am the customer, I'm not the product.

Should I worry about my privacy if I use this "free" service? I don't really want them to serve me targeted ads based on the contents of my Google Drive. I don't know whether they …

I can't speak for everyone else, but for myself, "tunnel vision" explains it pretty well. At some point in high school, I just decided being a doctor was a totally awesome thing to…

There is a certain element of truth to what you are saying. When I was early in my training I was dissappointed in my choice of medicine as a career because I also thought it lacke…

In my view, one of the reasons for runaway healthcare cost may the way that insurance coverage distances the patient / consumer from the true costs involved. (e.g. "My statin costs…

Microsoft Office. LibreOffice is pretty good as a standalone product, but when I used it regularly I had nagging document formatting problems when exchanging files with my work col…