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It’s never too early to talk about cost-conscious care

Allan Joseph
Education
January 22, 2014

Pretty much every conversation I’ve ever had about working to change physician culture boils down to two words: “medical education.” That was especially true at the 2013 Lown Institute Conference, which focused on the issue of right care: eliminating harmful overuse and harmful underuse. This comes down to reforming the way today’s physicians practice — eliminating the ordering of expensive tests and treatments that provide little to no benefit to …

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It’s never too early to talk about cost-conscious care

To put patients’ interests first, we have to put our own aside

Allan Joseph
Policy
November 23, 2013

I first read Dr. Matthew Moeller’s piece from this past March for the first time this week after a classmate of mine passed it on to me. I’m a first-year medical student — bright-eyed but sleep-deprived, trailing the smell of the cadaver lab everywhere. I entered medicine fully aware of the long, arduous road ahead, almost exactly as Dr. Moeller described it; with many of my classmates in my …

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To put patients’ interests first, we have to put our own aside

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