Shannon Brownlee
Shannon Brownlee is a health policy writer.
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Why is it so hard to make a dent in the huge volume of unnecessary health care? In the U.S., about 20 to 30 percent of the medical interventions American patients receive are useless and often harmful, and waste hundreds…
Why is it so hard to make a dent in the huge volume of unnecessary health care? In the U.S., about 20 to 30 percent of the medical interventions American patients receive are useless and often harmful, and waste hundreds of billions of dollars each year.
Insurers have known this for decades. These days, many more doctors have begun to see the big picture, along with policy makers. But the …
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Fixing overtreatment: Lone rangers need not apply
Physician voices
For those who have been following the back and forth over the Less is More blog I posted last week, here's the poster that upset some cardiologists when it was up on the Parsemus Foundation's site. Over the top? Of…
For those who have been following the back and forth over the Less is More blog I posted last week, here’s the poster that upset some cardiologists when it was up on the Parsemus Foundation’s site.
Over the top? Of course it is — it’s satire! And like all good satire, it contains a few grains of truth mixed with a hefty dose of exaggeration.
Still, it’s only fair to point …
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Decision aids need to be used for angioplasty and stents
Physician voices
Implantable defibrillators are truly life saving devices that have prevented sudden death in thousands of patients. No bigger than an iPod nano, the device can sense when the heart is beating irregularly and deliver an electrical jolt that kicks it…
Implantable defibrillators are truly life saving devices that have prevented sudden death in thousands of patients. No bigger than an iPod nano, the device can sense when the heart is beating irregularly and deliver an electrical jolt that kicks it back into proper rhythm. But like so many of medicine’s miracles, defibrillators are not always used on the right patients. According to a study published recently in the …
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Shared decision making to determine implantable defibrillator need
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