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Wednesday, September 16, 2015

Longevity, life expectancy, premature mortality: Are they lions and tigers and bears?

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Before I set up the context for this post, I am going to throw this out to you. Think of putting rocks on a scale to achieve the weight of, ...
Tuesday, September 15, 2015

"Lifesaving": I don't think it means what you think it means

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Transparency, I think that is what pissed me off so much. Or rather the opaqueness. Got me to post again, though, right? Well, don't ge...
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Tuesday, April 23, 2013

The slow work of healing

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I just finished reading " Tattoos on the Heart " by Gregory Boyle. I came to it partly via Krista Tippett 's conversation with...
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Friday, March 15, 2013

The New York Times, aspirin and melanoma, oh my!

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One of the reasons my blogging has fallen off lately is because I hate sounding like a broken record. Yet here I am again calling this time ...
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Thursday, March 14, 2013

Healing medicine's moral injuries and spiritual violations

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This, from the On Being blog : Dr. Shay has his own name for the thing the clinical definition of PTSD leaves out. He calls it “moral inju...
Tuesday, September 18, 2012

ACOG's dysmenorrhea FAQs: Evidence of propaganda?

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I have been looking up information on endometriosis for a friend of mine, and came upon this  from the American College of Obstetricians and...
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Friday, September 7, 2012

What does $750 billion in wasted spending look like?

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Here is an infographic (I know) from the Institute of Medicine who just released this report. According to it, we are wasting $750 billion ...
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Marya Zilberberg
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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