Reading matériel

Things have gotten busy at work -- hence the lack of new content. But I have been doing a lot of reading, and would love to point you all towards some of the more interesting things I've come across in the past few days:


A fascinating study conducted by the Kaiser Family Foundation, in conjunction with NPR and the Harvard School of Public Health, takes an in-depth look at the impact of heath care costs and the economy in two of the most important swing states in the upcoming election: Florida and Ohio. I highly recommend you click through to take a look at the analysis of the surveys and at the NPR news coverage, providing insights into the way health care costs currently affect people's daily life decisions in these battleground states.

An article in The New Republic written by a health policy junkie by the name of Don McCanne, MD on the importance and inevitability of stand-alone single payer health care system in the US.

And finally, two articles of note from this week's New England Journal of Medicine:

The first is about "Nontraditional Medical Students" (this includes myself!!) and the future of medicine, written by the young and exciting physician/author, Sandeep Jauhar, who is currently the director of the Heart Failure Program at Long Island Jewish Medical Center.

The second is about the current state of premedical education in the United States, and was written by the dean of medical education at Harvard Medical School.

Hope you find some of these pieces interesting, and I'll hopefully be able to holler back at y'all with some new content before the weekend is out.

First I have to finish up this document outlining the tentative purview of the Executive Quality Council for the hospital. Maybe I'll even share some of the work I've been doing here with you guys as it gets closer to completion.