a subspecialty, rheumatology demands knowledge, intuition, and judgment to go along with a broad appreciation of the nuances and mysteries of internal medicine. Creativity is also part of the practice since many conditions in the purview of rheumatology lack established therapies that have received US Food and Drug Administration approval or testing in a controlled trial. Th erefore, rheumatolo...

The Office of Inspector General (OIG), Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), in a 2009 report, showed that unqualified nonphysicians performed 21% of the services. These nonphysicians did not possess the necessary licenses, certifications, credentials, or training to perform the services. Since the time the medical profession was founded, advances in treatments and technology, as we...

There’s an old saying that you might hear in bars where journalists gather: don’t let the facts get in the way of a good story. Well, Investors Business Daily certainly took that approach as it waded into the great American health care debate. An editorial proclaimed that famed physicist Stephen Hawking “wouldn’t have a chance” if he lived in the UK and had to rely on Britain’s National Health ...

Correspondence: Thomas I Lemon School of Medicine, Cardiff University, University Hospital of Wales, Heath Park, Cardiff CF14 4XW, Wales Email [email protected] Dear editor Firstly we would like to thank Upatising et al for undertaking an interesting and relevant study. Health professionals are well aware of the impending crisis that the aging demographics will have on future worldwide health ca...

This Article proposes a novel and provocative analysis of judicial opinions that are published without indicating individual authorship. Our approach provides an unbiased, quantitative, and computer scientific answer to a problem that has long plagued legal commentators. * William Li is a PhD student in the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) and a 2012 graduate of t...

The Boston health care war had really stepped up at the end of winter. The hospitals were competing furiously for us to be their patients. Their ads boasted: “Individual Care/Global Impact,” “Human First,” “Exceptional Care Without Exception,” “World-Class Care Where You Live,” and “Everything Possible.” They told us we should choose them because they were big, because they were small, because ...

IntRoduCtIon This past decade has brought important change to the delivery of healthcare in the United States. In 2010, President Barack Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA, also referred to as ACA or Obamacare) into law. The ACA sought to provide insurance for millions of additional Americans while simultaneously bending the cost curve down. Beyond that, the far-...

On the heels of one of the most contentious, divisive general elections in recent history, one topic will remain front and center: our nation’s health care. Political pundits and prominent health-care experts concur that health-care reform is here to stay. As we enter into its third year of implementation, a salient question remains: What does health reform mean for nuclear medicine and molecul...

www.thelancet.com Vol 389 April 8, 2017 1389 Back in 1979, Steffie Woolhandler interviewed for a residency position in Oakland, CA, USA, and was guided around the hospital by a resident called David Himmelstein. This turned out to be not only a moment of providence for both doctors, but also for advocacy efforts to promote an equitable US health system, which they have championed for the past t...