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Saturday, August 22, 2009

Week in review

On Wednesday, August 19, Grandma went to kevinMD

The sick and the dead

A school yard bully

Death and taxes

Barney Frank Town Hall, Dartmouth, MA

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I am an independent physician health services researcher with a specific interest in healthcare-associated complications and a broad interest in the state of our healthcare system. I am also a professor of Epidemiology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. I am frequently invited to speak about evidence-based medicine, methods and healthcare-associated complications. My posts have been syndicated on The Health Care Blog, KevinMD,The Healthcare Collective and other sites. They have also been cited in the New York Times. Occasionally you can also find me blogging on the British Medical Journal blog site http://www.doc2doc.bmj.com If you would like to contact me about my research, blog posts or speaking, please e-mail me at Healthcareetcblog@gmail.com
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