Hospitals were never meant to be operated like businesses. To improve our health care system, hospital concentration must be regulated.
Shannon Brownlee
Shannon Brownlee is a lecturer at George Washington University School of Public Health and Special Advisor to the President of the Lown Institute.
Posted inApril/May/June 2018, Books, Magazine
More Heart Than Science
Industrialized health care has suppressed the human interaction that forms the ineffable “art” of medicine—while failing to achieve true efficiency.
Posted inBooks, Featured, Magazine, November/December 2017
Trial in Error
How the economic imperatives of academia and biomedical journals are leading to a flood of junk science.
Posted inBooks, College Guide, Featured, Magazine, September/October 2017
The Health Care Debate We’re Not Having
Two new books show how access to health care is only part of the problem.
Posted inMagazine, March/April/May 2017
A Cure for High Health Care Costs
Republican reform plans misdiagnose the problem. The solution is better care for the minority of patients who drive most of the spending.
Posted inBooks, Government, Magazine, November/December 2015
First We Take Manhattan
New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg’s public health G-men got smoking out of restaurants, trans fats out of foods, and calorie counts onto menus. The rest of the country soon followed.
Posted inBooks, Health Care, Magazine, March/April/May 2015
Death with Indignity
How Medicare and other federal subsidies rope the elderly into painful, futile, and costly end-of-life care.
Posted inMagazine
America, Heal Thyself
What other countries can’t teach us about controlling health care costs.
Posted inMagazine
Newtered
f you’ve never suffered the agony of low back pain, don’t worrychances are you will. About two-thirds of adults are hit with low back pain at some time in their lives, and for many the pain is sufficiently unbearable to send them hobbling into the doctor’s office. Yet although back pain is one of the […]
Posted inPolitical Animal, Politics
Hospital Error
HOSPITAL ERROR….Two large studies, published today in the Journal of the American Medical Association, found that cutting the grueling work hours of doctors-in-training had little effect on reducing hospital errors and patient deaths. Surprised? So were the researchers who did the studies. There are three possible explanations. One, most errors aren’t caused by groggy, sleep-deprived, […]
