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Yeah, the advantage of PP is that (1) they are specialized and (2) they have a large patient volume that allows them to negotiate medical products in bulk. That allows them to prov…

You can't seriously think that US doctors want to keep their patients sick.

That's because people in general, probably you too, are willing to take the tradeoff for resolution of acute problem over long term consequences. Most people are willing to pay for…

All this talk of 35 vs 45 hours a week makes me sad that medical residents are clocking 80 hours.

> But how often does that occur? And is it worth the economic cost of not having doctors available, or doctors overworked? Individual human life is cheap. As someone currently in m…

What I find funny about this example is that at first I thought the "it happened" argument was going to be used in defense of the person doing the stabbing. Which, of course, it co…

While it is true that end-of-life care costs are indeed out of control, to say that there is a "strong profit motive" for keeping terminally-ill patients alive seems to me a very, …

I think the point the previous commentator was trying to make is the distinction between the 'tech industry' a la Silicon Valley versus other industries - and it would be unfair to…

I'm feeling incredibly bearish on this one. The central nervous system is not meant to be trifled with. There are way too many questions here. What's the evidence for this? Two pap…

The problem with self-administration though is misinterpretation. Not to mention that the logic of cheapness/convenience -> more data -> better health doesn't always hold. The more…

There is actually now a LOT of interest in the biomedical community for circulating tumor DNA - a quick Pubmed search yields 3317 results and Illumina is practically throwing money…

I think you might want to take a closer look at the developments in cancer over the past five years. Ipilimumab alone reduced the risk of death in metastatic melanoma patients by 3…