I think we can drop any pretense about the judicious use of imaging in medicine. It’s a lost cause. My radiology friends and I have a running exchange of the myriad absurd reasons for doing CTA’s (= CT angiography). It all distills down to the hypothetical clinical scenario of “itching out of proportion to dandruff.”Continue reading ““Literally….””
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“Hospital Productivity Metrics”
I’ve come to the opinion that business school mostly teaches people how to lie. And smile. Smile when they lie (and earn money on other people’s labor). And they never lie more than with their comparative statistics. Hospital administrators start off by placing a near zero productivity value on a clinician’s administrative tasks, all theContinue reading ““Hospital Productivity Metrics””
Great Exudations 