unnecessary interventions – more harm than good

The serious harm, panel members said, is overdiagnosis, finding cancers that are better off not being found.

mammography

Health care is complex. Most treatments that “work” only work in a fraction of the people who get that treatment. Each has risks, which also affect a subset of those treated. Evaluating value is a trade-off between risks and benefits. Because breast cancer is such a high profile issue, the new mammography guidelines offered the Obama administration a chance to educate the public about the trade-offs involved in making those choices, and how the nation might wring more value out of the money it spends on health care.

Off to DC again!

How many years have we been trying to change this health care system?  Saw  a great Woodrow Wilson quote -“If you want to make enemies, just try to change something.”

Investigative journalists Kauffman and Altimari

But since that law was revised five years ago, the mishap at Bridgeport Hospital, and thousands of other incidents that injured or killed patients, have been hidden from the public by hospitals and the state health department. From minor accidents to deadly errors, public access to hospitals’ adverse events has fallen 90 percent since the legislature redrafted the law.

Thank you Arielle for your great article on ST Francis Hospital

HARTFORD — – The surgery was supposed to repair the patient’s heart, but more than five hours into the procedure, something went wrong — a “catastrophic” failure of the pump meant to keep blood and oxygen flowing through the patient’s body. The patient sustained a brain injury and died a month later.

Who is your daddy? Greenwich doctor uses wrong sperm in procedure

Greenwich obstetrician is accused of his own sperm in an in vitro fertilization procedure and not the patient’s husband’s. Time for transparency in public health.

Docs get paid to promote drugs on questionable research: I am outraged that these kinds of conflicts exist.

Questionable relationships continue between pharmaceuticals looking to profit and doctors’ ability to do valuable, trustworthy research.

A prisoner in her own body:Sydney's story

Brian, Sydney’s Dad, shares her story of life with cerebral palsy.

They called him names

tort reformers might just be teabaggers

Wrong site surgeries – and they keep saying quality of care is most important

Rhode Island hospital has now installed video cameras in the operating room.