September 2008
6 posts
Taking Doctors' Pulse →
The wait to see an internist can be as long as 17 days for new patients and six days for regular patients, the survey found. The longest mean average wait times for new-patient office visits was 24 days.
Lest you are tempted to dismiss these results as the whinings of a privileged class of affluent people, it is time to jettison doctor stereotypes. The average primary care physician, gatekeeper...
At Amherst college, 1% of first-year students have... →
And as technology gets easier and more mainstream, this type of behavior is spilling into the older generations.
“You guys at Hello Health are doing what the government has failed to do.”
– a friend.
“I don’t rely on the doctor anymore. These days,... →
Geez…the profession is in such a bad state. And it’s so interesting because doctors are the point people of the health care industry. We are the point of contact of the large hospital institutions, the pharmaceutical industry, and everyone else making a killing on the backs of doctors and patients all across the nation. As a matter of fact, doctors take home just over 10% of the...
School of Everything →
Wow…this is amazing. From Cory Doctorow at BoingBoing:
“Last night, I attended the launch of School of Everything, a new web service that acts as a kind of eBay for people who have something to teach. Potential teachers list their areas of expertise (anything from knitting to programming to driving to yoga to TIG-welding to whatever) and potential students find teachers with a simple...