Revealing Previously Unexposed Vulnerabilities
By Laura Sander, MD MPH “I walked in a person, and out a cancer patient,” my Dad said as we filed home. Crossing this threshold, we found ourselves on the
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Compassionate Strategies and the Costs of Care
By Narine Wandrey Bewildered, panicked, and disheartened…I watched my mother’s eyes dart back and forth as she read the pharmacy’s prescription cash price list, knowing she could not possibly dig deep
The Cost of Dying
By JaBaris Swain, MD MPH It was probably the most awkward question I had been asked before, and I did not have an answer… He was a middle-aged gentleman, neatly dressed—very
The Costs of Illness
By Monica Williams-Murphy, MD Mrs. Sandra Jackson knew that she was no Warren Buffet. She knew that she was no Bill Gates. Instead, Mrs. Jackson knew that she worked two jobs,
“NO” leads to a cheaper, faster and safer patient option
By Randi Oster We were taking our eighth trip to the emergency room with my son Gary, who has Crohn’s disease, rushing from one hospital to the next. In Norwalk, the
A Low-Tech Solution to Providing High-Value Care at the Bedside
By Chris Moriates, MD There is little doubt that over the next few years we will see a wave of increasingly sophisticated point-of-care tools to help clinicians determine the costs and