So you may be asking yourself what’s this budget sequester mumbo-jumbo all about? Turns out, it’s not mumbo-jumbo at all; rather a pretty serious issue. As you may recall (or…
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Now that the days awaiting the Supreme Court’s initial decision on the Affordable Care Act (ACA) are long over, we wanted to take time to remind everyone about the many…
From time to time you will see us promote items on Neurosurgery Blog in order to spotlight some great things which are born out of the many members who work…
Recently Rep. Michael Burgess, MD (R-TX), took on CNN’s Soledad O’Brien on Medicare reform and the Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB) in particular. Before we show you the video here’s…
It’s easy to understand why we have to write a post like this since information travels far and wide (often repeating itself many times over) in today’s digital world —…
Today we wanted to share an essay from Atul Gawande, MD. In this piece, published last month in the New Yorker, he posits that medicine could learn from big chains, like…
We bet some of you may already have seen these articles on ways to contain healthcare costs, but we wanted to pass them on in the event you missed them….
Healthcare is central to our daily lives and policymakers in Washington, DC have an enormous influence and control over this vital aspect of society. Yet despite this, most people cannot…