Healthcare, etc.
Friday, May 29, 2009

The business of news

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When I was growing up in the 1970s (yes, in fact it was last century, thank you very much), news was different. And I do not think that this...
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Saturday, May 23, 2009

Whom are we killing?

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We are a society obsessed. Everywhere we go, there are soaps and detergents with antibacterial agents in them. Some of our food is irradiate...
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Wednesday, May 13, 2009

Some thoughts about denominators

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Let's face it: denominators keep numbers (and people reporting them) honest. Imagine if I said that there were 3,352 cases of a never-be...
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Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Writer's block

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Here I am sitting at my computer trying to write a review on MRSA in the intensive care unit, and all of a sudden I cannot write -- everythi...
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Monday, May 11, 2009

Too little too late?

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The Washington post today reports that several stake holders in our healthcare system (the AMA, PhRMA, AHA, AHIP, to name a few) are meeting...
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Saturday, May 9, 2009

On trade-offs

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Remember how your mom made you choose between a cookie and a piece of chocolate for dessert? Remember how shocked you were the first time it...

Virgin blogger

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Well, I have been contemplating starting a blog for some time, but was not sure how to approach it. Being a health services researcher, I ob...
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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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