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Mental Health’s Double Standard

June 28, 2018 by Matthew Edlund M.D.

New Barriers to Care Depression is a scourge, widely considered the second greatest cause of health disability worldwide.  It has always been tough to treat.  New studies show it having a worse course the older we get.  Yet new governmental regulations are making the possibility of adequately treating depression in older folk so onerous less […]

Treat the Chart Not the Patient

November 2, 2017 by Matthew Edlund M.D.

Killing Care Softly It’s official: doctors treat charts, not people.  Harvard researcher Russell Phillips reckons physicians of many stripes are now “data entry technicians.”  My preferred term is “checklist monkeys.”  The results for your health care? Not good. How much time and energy are really wasted?  Recent reports show ER physicians spending 44% of their time […]

The Medical Care Machine

September 27, 2015 by Matthew Edlund M.D.

Do you want to be a machine? What happens when your employer wants to treat you like one? What does this do to health care? The digital economy allows you to measure much.  What gets measured gets managed. The ideas of “scientific management” achieved their first apotheosis over a century ago with Frederick Taylor.  Henry Ford […]

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