Business of Medicine Perspective

• Mirror, Mirror: How Digital Twins Can Rescue Healthcare The key to overcoming complexity is simplicity.
  Medscape Business of Medicine, July 23, 2024
• Italy's Public Health System Needs a Paradigm Shift Although funding is a concern, the underlying problem with Italy's public healthcare system is its prioritization of budgetary prudence over patients' health.
  Medscape Family Medicine, July 23, 2024
• A Cash Giveaway to Improve Health   We can't just give cash to low-income folks instead of food to improve their health, can we? That's just what these researchers did.
  Medscape, July 22, 2024
• Laboratory-Developed Meat: Ethicist Says It's Worth Pursuing   Ethicist Art Caplan discusses considerations for laboratory-developed meat.
  Medscape Business of Medicine, July 22, 2024
• Infographic: Issues for Doctors With Medicare and Medicaid A Medscape survey revealed some difficulties that physicians experience working with the Medicare and Medicaid government health insurance programs.
  Medscape, July 19, 2024
• Primary Care Internal Medicine Is Dead Dr Debra L. Glasser mourns the loss of the specialty she loved for more than four decades.
  Medscape Internal Medicine, July 17, 2024
• Ethics of Sex, Romance Among Older Adults in Nursing Homes   Ethicist Art Caplan discusses the ethics of sex among older adults in long-term care facilities.
  Medscape Business of Medicine, July 15, 2024
• Expanding Use of GLP-1 RAs for Weight Management Is Medicare's resistance to paying for weight loss medications coming to an end?
  Medscape Family Medicine, July 11, 2024
• Infographic: PAs Feel Content With Jobs Despite Challenges A Medscape survey found that physician assistants (PAs) generally expressed high satisfaction with their careers despite various challenges.
  Medscape, July 09, 2024
• Mounjaro Beats Ozempic, So Why Isn't It More Popular?   Effectiveness isn't the only factor determining choice of GLP-1 receptor agonist for weight loss.
  Medscape, July 08, 2024
• Transplants Using Animal Organs: Research, Not Lifesaving   Ethicist Art Caplan discusses transplantation using organs from animals, and the need to be clear to patients that these early-stage procedures are research rather than lifesaving efforts.
  Medscape Business of Medicine, July 08, 2024
• How Facial Temperature Reveals Age and Disease Find out why Dr F. Perry Wilson says that the medical tricorder perhaps wasn't as fanciful as it seemed when it was used by Dr Beverly Crusher on "Star Trek."
  Medscape, July 02, 2024
• Medication Overuse in Mental Health Facilities Ethicist Art Caplan discusses the overuse of antipsychotic medications in long-term mental health facilities.
  Medscape Business of Medicine, July 01, 2024
• Coming Soon: The Blue Zone Certified Clinician Blue Zones and Lifestyle Medicine are joining forces to help patients who want to live longer, healthier lives.
  Medscape Family Medicine, June 28, 2024
• Should 'South Park: The End of Obesity' Be Required Viewing? A new South Park episode tackles obesity, including the continuing demand for antiobesity medications. Yoni Freedhoff, MD, explains why it should be required viewing in medical school.
  Medscape Diabetes & Endocrinology, June 28, 2024
• Online Diagnosis of STIs? Ethicist Says We Are Nowhere Close Ethicist Art Caplan discusses the use of websites for diagnosing sexually transmitted diseases.
  Medscape Business of Medicine, June 24, 2024
• Tech Helps Patients With T2D 'Do Better' in the 'Real World'   Dr Anne Peters discusses the SECURE-T2D study and implications for treating patients with type 2 diabetes.
  Medscape Diabetes & Endocrinology, June 24, 2024
• Infographic: How Doctors Are Doing in Creating Family Wealth A Medscape report reveals the average family net worth of US physicians as well as a gender gap in successfully building wealth.
  Medscape, June 20, 2024
• Transplant Ethics: Quality of Life & Functional Restoration   Art Caplan discusses the ethics of transplanting for quality of life, not for functional restoration.
  Medscape Business of Medicine, June 17, 2024
• Share Research Results With Participants, Ethicist Says   Ethicist Art Caplan discusses the obligation to provide study results to research participants.
  Medscape Business of Medicine, June 17, 2024