Cost Of Care: Narrative Matters
by Health Affairs
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Description
Stories about the cost of medical care-including the hard realities involved-from Narrative Matters, a section of first-person essays in the policy journal Health Affairs.
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Janet R. Gilsdorf - "As Drug Marketing Pays Off, My Mother Pays Up" Full Essay | A physician questions the value of a drug that may provide only marginal benefit—and why it was prescribed in the first place. (January/February 2004) | 10/26/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Janet R. Gilsdorf - "As Drug Marketing Pays Off, My Mother Pays Up" Abridged Version | A physician questions the value of a drug that may provide only marginal benefit—and why it was prescribed in the first place. (January/February 2004) | 10/26/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Jack Coulehan - "Shingles Does It" Full Essay | After a doctor-professor with a bad case of shingles arrives in the ER, he discovers what it’s like to be a patient in pain during this age of aggressive medicine. (September/October 2009) | 9/15/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Jack Coulehan - "Shingles Does It" Abridged Version | After a doctor-professor with a bad case of shingles arrives in the ER, he discovers what it’s like to be a patient in pain during this age of aggressive medicine. (September/October 2009) | 9/15/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Jonathan Han - "Serious Side Effects" Full Essay | A doctor works on—and worries about—a way to care for needy patients who use free drug samples from pharmaceutical companies. (March/April 2009) | 9/14/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Jonathan Han - "Serious Side Effects" Abridged Version | A doctor works on—and worries about—a way to care for needy patients who use free drug samples from pharmaceutical companies. (March/April 2009) | 9/14/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Jay Himmelstein - "Bleeding-Edge Benefits" Full Essay | A physician learns that many graduate students—including his niece—are just one serious illness away from considering medical bankruptcy. (November/December 2006) | 9/13/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Jay Himmelstein - "Bleeding-Edge Benefits" Abridged Version | A physician learns that many graduate students—including his niece—are just one serious illness away from considering medical bankruptcy. (November/December 2006) | 9/13/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Buck Taylor - "Giveaway Drugs: Good Intentions, Bad Design" Abridged Version | A community clinic director is frustrated by well-meaning drug company programs. (January/February 2004) | 9/11/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Buck Taylor - "Giveaway Drugs: Good Intentions, Bad Design" Full Essay | A community clinic director is frustrated by well-meaning drug company programs. (January/February 2004) | 9/11/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Richard D. Lamm - "Doctors Have Patients, Governors Have Citizens" Abridged Version | A former governor speaks out about the culture and value clashes between medicine and public policy. (September/October 2000) | 9/10/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Richard D. Lamm - "Doctors Have Patients, Governors Have Citizens" Full Essay | A former governor speaks out about the culture and value clashes between medicine and public policy. (September/October 2000) | 9/10/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 12 Episodes |
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