Patient Education – An Overlooked Factor in the Cost of Care
By Anonymous There is a saying in the world of education, “You have to care to teach.” Why is it then in healthcare, a profession of and about caring, we
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The Cost of Miscommunication between Patient and Doctor
By Kelley Cosgrove A few years ago, as I prepared for neurosurgery, a nurse who worked there told me, “Spend as little time in the hospital as possible, because the
Transparency for the Sake of Our Patients
By Ali Khoshnevi, MD My brother and I, both optometrists, had a heart-to-heart discussion about the loss of one of our patients. We discovered he was not taking his medications as prescribed,
A Life Lesson in Cost-Awareness
By Christi Lucus, RN, BSN It was July 2012 and I was pregnant with my third child. As an experienced mother and labor and delivery nurse, I felt very comfortable at 29
Pharmacy Cost Savings
By Megan Sanders-Sneller There are several different scenarios that I can think of in the past four years of pharmacy school that exhibit the high cost of prescription health care. Prescription medications
From Teacher to Doctor: Lessons Learned on Minimizing Costs
By Anonymous, MD I remember being a New York City public school teacher, prior to medical school, and buying my own supplies for my classroom. I did not realize I would