Changing the focus of care to this is more than just emotional idealism, it is good business. Care should not be about codes, procedures, medications, tests, or interventions, but instead about helping people live their lives with as few problems as possible. We need an economy that thrives when the patient costs the system less.
Any attempt to reform without this change will ultimately fail.
As an incurable compulsive introspect, I tend to brood, ponder, contemplate, and (of course) muse on \”big ideas,\” such as:
Tough questions.
Lately I\’ve been contemplating the nature of human awareness:
Yeah, that\’s a lot deeper than about dogs watching Oprah.
The idea of a 'balance' to be disturbed flies in the face of the reality easily seen in this world: few people get through the year without getting sick, and none ultimately avoid getting some terminal condition. In short, fighting sickness is always a losing game.
Health care is broken. Badly broken. I was making a list of areas in which the system is broken (not human error, but system error), and I got up to 53 in one sitting. When I tweeted this, a good friend and fellow blogger wondered why I didn\’t start a list of things that are …
I am holding a contest on my Facebook page to come up with a haiku about healthcare. I honestly don\’t care what it\’s about as long as it is clever (including llamas does not give you an advantage, though). Head on over there and give me your best haiku! You know what is at stake …
