Doctors are human. Humans screw up. What happens when doctors screw up?
The latest prime time TV series set in a hospital, TNT's "Monday Mornings", sets out to provide a dramatic answer.
Former CNN Medical Correspondent Andrew Holtz examines how medicine and health are portrayed in the media... and why it matters. Holtz is the author of "The Medical Science of House, M.D." (2006), "The Real Grey's Anatomy" (2010) and the new "House, M.D. vs. Reality". More information available at www.holtzreport.com
Wednesday, January 30, 2013
Monday Mornings Quarterbacking: How does new TNT medical drama match reality?
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Monday, January 21, 2013
Inaugurations & Uninsured - Four Years Later
On Inauguration Day 2009, I watched the ceremony and parade from an operating room. On the table was a woman without health care insurance who had delayed treatment for fear of bankrupting her family.
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Tuesday, January 15, 2013
The media are influential... on everyone else, say Alzheimer's specialists
A new survey of dementia specialists caught my eye for two reasons.
One, most said they intend to use a newly-approved $3000 test for anyloid deposits in the brain, even though they concede the results can be misleading (for instance, while a lack of amyloid found on this test means a person probably doesn't have Alzheimer's, many people have the deposts, but not Alzheimer's, so the meaning of a positive result is unclear).
Two, half of them "felt media coverage of testing would influence whether amyloid imaging became commonly used in clinical practice." But not a single respondent (0 of 135) "felt their decision to use amyloid imaging would be influenced by media coverage."
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