Check out this interesting NYT’s article “Teaching Physicians the Price of Care.” When I was in residency we were taught to consider whether a test would change management before ordering it, but we never explicitly reviewed prices.
What’s provocative is that some systems reward physicians financially for expensive testing. That topic is notably missing from the article.
There was a well-reasoned op-ed in the NYT this past week on an amendment being proposed to Congress to add fifteen thousand medical residency slots to the hundred thousand residencies the federal government now finances. The point the writers make is that increasing the supply of physicians across the board is much less strategic than training primary care physicians (PCPs) specifically and remunerating those PCPs such that they continue to practice. The piece is written by Shannon Brownlee, the author of “Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer” and David Goodman, a professor at the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice. Here is the article.
Dr. Finkel is a graduate of Stanford University and Harvard Medical School. On completing her residency at Harvard, she was asked to
stay on as faculty at Harvard Medical School and spent five years teaching at the world-renowned Massachusetts General Hospital.
She was appointed to the Assistant Residency Director position for the Harvard Affiliated
Emergency Medicine Residency where she reviewed countless applications, personal statements and resumes. Read more
