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My Very Own Private Screening

It's not often that a football game can teach us something useful about mammography. But look what happened on Sunday after New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick decided to go for a short fourth-down conversion from his own 28 yard line, with a ...

From DARSHAK SANGHAVI, Double X,  19 Nov 2009
Related Topics: New England Patriots,  Bill Belichick,  Peyton Manning,  Sports Illustrated,  New York Times Company

What watching ESPN could teach us about mammograms.

It's not often that a football game can teach us something useful about mammography. But look what happened on Sunday after New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick decided to go for a short fourth-down conversion from his own 28 yard line, with a ...

From DARSHAK SANGHAVI, Slate,  18 Nov 2009
Related Topics: ESPN,  New England Patriots,  Bill Belichick,  Peyton Manning,  Sports Illustrated

How to reform the broken medical malpractice system.

For many doctors, the malpractice case against a family physician named Daniel Merenstein epitomized how the broken medical liability system drives up costs. In 1999, Merenstein, then a resident, saw a 53-year-old man for a routine checkup and ...

From DARSHAK SANGHAVI, Slate,  9 Nov 2009
Related Topics: American Cancer Society,  Harvard University,  National Bureau of Economic Research,  United States Department of Health and Human Services,  Congressional Budget Office

The promises and perils of treating patients more like consumers.

Five years ago, former President Bill Clinton developed chest pains caused by blockages of several coronary arteries. After going to a small hospital near his home in Chappaqua, N.Y., Clinton had further tests at nearby Westchester Medical Center, ...

From DARSHAK SANGHAVI, Slate,  28 Sep 2009
Related Topics: Bill Clinton,  Cass Sunstein,  US Food and Drug Administration

The hidden public-private cartel that sets health care prices.

The nation soon may face the same fate. To have any hope of meaningful national health reform, therefore, we must address the perverse financial incentives that created and continue to inflame this problem. The root of the shortage can be traced to 1985 ...

From DARSHAK SANGHAVI, Slate,  2 Sep 2009
Related Topics: Harvard University,  American Medical Association

How to fix racial disparities in medical care.

Black Americans live shorter lives and have poorer health outcomes when compared with whites. Health researchers, depending on their political persuasion, explain this disparity in one of two ways, neither of which is very constructive. Liberals ...

From DARSHAK SANGHAVI, Slate,  14 Aug 2009
Related Topics: Georgetown University,  American Enterprise Institute

Should we blame overdiagnosis for rising health costs?

Taken another way, however, the joke hints at the nature of illness in the modern world. In 2006, Harvard economist and Obama adviser David Cutler calculated what we get in return for our health care spending. Over the past 50 years, we've increased ...

From DARSHAK SANGHAVI AND PATRICK RADDEN KEEFE, Slate,  22 Jul 2009
Related Topics: Harvard University,  Barack Obama,  Peter Singer,  George W. Bush

The sobering lessons of health reform in Massachusetts.

The debate over achieving universal health care can seem hopelessly confusing. But the issues are actually pretty simple when you consider the lessons of Massachusetts. In 2006, state lawmakers seeking to broaden health coverage made it illegal to be ...

From DARSHAK SANGHAVI, Slate,  23 Jun 2009

Why Judge Sotomayor's diabetes shouldn't be ignored.

Sonia Sotomayor, the 54-year-old federal judge currently serving on the 2nd Circuit, is poised to become the nation's first Latina on the Supreme Court—and also the first justice with Type 1 diabetes. Her medical condition has sparked a debate over her ...

From DARSHAK SANGHAVI, Slate,  29 May 2009
Related Topics: Sonia Sotomayor,  Harvard University,  John Roberts,  Clarence Thomas,  William O. Douglas

What can reality TV teach us about clinical drug trials?

From the combined 17 seasons of ABC's The Bachelor and The Bachelorette—which regularly featured noisy declarations of on-air love—only a single marriage has emerged. Millions regularly tune in to Fox's American Idol, but the show that produced bona ...

From DARSHAK SANGHAVI, Slate,  13 May 2009
Related Topics: American Idol,  Kelly Clarkson,  Carrie Underwood,  Taylor Hicks,  Anna Wintour

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