After completing a residency in pediatrics and one in preventive medicine at Johns Hopkins, I started a practice for my neighborhood of Williamsburg, Brooklyn in September 2007. People would visit my website; see my Google calendar; choose a time and input their symptoms; my iphone would alert me; I would make a house call; they'd pay me via Paypal; and we'd follow up by email, IM, videochat, or in person.

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  • The systemic cost of medical malpractice

    The cost of both malpractice premiums and payouts from malpractice insurers in a given year is a little over 1% of the $2.5 trillion healthcare industry.

    However, the cost of physicians being afraid of being sued and ordering every test under the sun is estimated at about 30% of the $2.5 trillion spent on healthcare in a given year.

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      I heard this statistic over the weekend. Thanks to these guys for framing it nicely.
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      Do you think this suggests any policy changes? Even if we assume that the...are fully...
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