James Gaulte, MD
James Gaulte is an internal medicine physician.
Education
Should medical student applicants be chosen less for their demonstrated ability to master large amounts of knowledge and solve problems and more for their social consciousness and desire to push forward with social justice? That appears to be the suggestion…
Should medical student applicants be chosen less for their demonstrated ability to master large amounts of knowledge and solve problems and more for their social consciousness and desire to push forward with social justice?
That appears to be the suggestion of a panel of experts from the AMA in a project called the Initiative to Transform Medicine (ITM) who believe an altruism deficiency underlies …
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Should social justice matter when choosing medical students?
Policy
Apart from some apparently radically contradictory expressed views on patient "centeredness" and patients being in control, the newly appointed head of CMS, Dr. Donald Berwick, has made it clear what sort of medical system he would have for the United…
Apart from some apparently radically contradictory expressed views on patient “centeredness” and patients being in control, the newly appointed head of CMS, Dr. Donald Berwick, has made it clear what sort of medical system he would have for the United States.
What he wants is well explained in this commentary from National Review Online as is the authors’ reasoning of why that sort of …
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The medical system Donald Berwick prefers in the United States
Conditions
A recent publication in the publication Health Affairs has evoked comments and some concern from advocates of comparative effectiveness research and admirers of the Dartmouth Atlas. A survey of "consumers" found a level of skepticism that is alarming to those…
A recent publication in the publication Health Affairs has evoked comments and some concern from advocates of comparative effectiveness research and admirers of the Dartmouth Atlas.
A survey of “consumers” found a level of skepticism that is alarming to those folks who are in the business of claiming to know what aspects of medical care should be offered.
The idea that more care and more costly care gives inferior results to less …
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Sometimes more expensive care is better treatment
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