Telemedicine, or medical consultations via the internet, is aiming to change the landscape of healthcare delivery. While it has come through on many of its promises, it still may be too early to tell if any of these changes will be effective in the future.
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Why do healthcare expenditures in the U.S. tower over those of other wealthy countries? And why are the health benefits we receive not commensurate with all those billions spent? Dr. Atul Gawande has some thoughts on this in The New Yorker.
Several societies concerned with countering the spread of infectious diseases issued a call for mandatory immunization of all healthcare workers. They outlined their reasons, but those are quite obvious and this mandate is long overdue, as we here at ACSH have been saying for years.