[wisconsin_cur]

We have gone to a hospitalist model in my department @ my hospital. On the whole I have found it an improvement esp in two areas.

1)Intake knows exactly how many pts each MD can take on any given night so there is no guessing and fewer angry MDs in the middle of the night or in the morning.

2) Frankly, they seem to be more professional and nicer to those of us who are not MDs since we are more directly employees of one boss. While management is still differential to them (they do not want to drive them away) there are a few more levers to deal with bad behavior on the part of the MD.

There are probably downsides but from where I sit I do not experience them.

[smallpoxgirl]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('wisconsin_cur', 'T')here are probably downsides but from where I sit I do not experience them.

[HeckuvaJob]

T.R. Reid: Looking Overseas For 'Healing Of America'

Excellent 30min interview on Fresh Air. Clarifies lots of the terminology and offers an overview of several different countries' systems. The author tours the globe seeking relief from his frozen shoulder. I was surprised in which country he experienced the best results.Definitely worth a listen. I'd love to see some feedback here.

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'J')ournalist and author T.R. Reid set out on a global tour of hospitals and doctors' offices, all in the hopes of understanding how other industrialized nations provide affordable, effective universal health care. The result: his book The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care.

Reid is a foreign correspondent for The Washington Post — in whose pages he recently addressed five major myths about other countries' health-care systems — and the former chief of the paper's London and Tokyo bureaus.

Reid was the lead correspondent for the 2008 Frontline documentary Sick Around the World, which examined five other capitalist democracies, looking for lessons on health-care delivery. His books include Confucius Lives Next Door: What Living in the East Teaches Us About Living in the West and The United States of Europe: The New Superpower and the End of American Supremacy.

[steam_cannon]

Aaron, thank you for sharing and I'm glad your family has given you strength. Here's a picture, I saw it and thought: You have many friends, like a roof over your head and possibilities that stretch to the horizon on the road before you.



Best wishes.

[Aaron]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('steam_cannon', 'A')aron, thank you for sharing and I'm glad your family has given you strength. Here's a picture, I saw it and thought: You have many friends, like a roof over your head and possibilities that stretch to the horizon on the road before you.



Best wishes.

[Pretorian]

here is a simplified system: you are a rich guy, you hire yourself a doctor full-time. When you are ok doctor gets paid and doesnt even show up at work, goes fishing, whatnot. When you get sick doctor stops being paid... for as long as you are sick...

[Aaron]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Pretorian', 'h')ere is a simplified system: you are a rich guy, you hire yourself a doctor full-time. When you are ok doctor gets paid and doesnt even show up at work, goes fishing, whatnot. When you get sick doctor stops being paid... for as long as you are sick...

[Pretorian]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Aaron', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Pretorian', 'h')ere is a simplified system: you are a rich guy, you hire yourself a doctor full-time. When you are ok doctor gets paid and doesnt even show up at work, goes fishing, whatnot. When you get sick doctor stops being paid... for as long as you are sick...

[Auntie_Cipation]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Aaron', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Pretorian', 'h')ere is a simplified system: you are a rich guy, you hire yourself a doctor full-time. When you are ok doctor gets paid and doesnt even show up at work, goes fishing, whatnot. When you get sick doctor stops being paid... for as long as you are sick...

[Pretorian]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Auntie_Cipation', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Aaron', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Pretorian', 'h')ere is a simplified system: you are a rich guy, you hire yourself a doctor full-time. When you are ok doctor gets paid and doesnt even show up at work, goes fishing, whatnot. When you get sick doctor stops being paid... for as long as you are sick...

[Aaron]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Auntie_Cipation', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Aaron', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Pretorian', 'h')ere is a simplified system: you are a rich guy, you hire yourself a doctor full-time. When you are ok doctor gets paid and doesnt even show up at work, goes fishing, whatnot. When you get sick doctor stops being paid... for as long as you are sick...

[smallpoxgirl]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Aaron', 'H')ow about one large, nation-wide group?

[WildRose]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('smallpoxgirl', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Aaron', 'H')ow about one large, nation-wide group?

[smallpoxgirl]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('WildRose', 'M')edical education (preventive medicine) would go a long way to helping the system in the USA, Canada, everywhere, if everyone could get excited about it.