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I’d prefer the headline to say something other than “good” doctors but rather “senior” or “highly experienced.” Are Good Doctors Bad for Your Health? https://t.co/oMP752zbYj

Opinion | Are Good Doctors Bad for Your Health? Having a heart attack? Better hope that the star cardiologist is out of town.

Why Your Health Insurer Doesn't Care About Your Big Bills https://t.co/ez6TBJrbU3

Why Your Health Insurer Doesn't Care About Your Big Bills Patients may think their insurers are fighting on their behalf for the best prices. But saving patients money is often not their top priority. Just ask Michael Frank about his hip surgery.

Abraham Verghese, a great doctor, writer and chronicler of modern medicine writes about a serious side effect of electronic medical records: "How Tech Can Turn Doctors Into Clerical Workers" https://t.co/QPavnaxxTY via@NYTimes

How Tech Can Turn Doctors Into Clerical Workers The threat that electronic health records and machine learning pose to physicians’ clinical judgment — and their well-being.

Long read but worth it. US healthcare system undermines dr-patient relationship to detriment of patients and healthcare costs: "Trying to Put a Value on the Doctor-Patient Relationship" https://t.co/fgRPQCLWKA via

Trying to Put a Value on the Doctor-Patient Relationship In its push for profits, the U.S. health care system has made it difficult for patients to get personal attention from doctors. But what if hands-on medicine actually saves money — and lives?

Limiting Opioid Prescribing: The Fallout From Arbitrary Rules https://t.co/OykZXP0tve via

Limiting Opioid Prescribing: The Fallout From Arbitrary Rules While it is well recognized that reducing opioid use is necessary, there is also a downside to arbitrary limits on prescribing.

How to fight unfair & unethical billing practices in healthcare: "Nine Rights Every Patient Should Demand" https://t.co/Xlb31ESTQY via

Opinion | Nine Rights Every Patient Should Demand We need a Financial Bill of Rights to protect consumers of health care from unfair charges.

Medicare Is Cracking Down on Opioids. Doctors Fear Pain Patients Will Suffer., via

Medicare Is Cracking Down on Opioids. Doctors Fear Pain Patients Will Suffer. Officials are close to limiting doses of the painkillers, but doctors say doing so could put older patients into withdrawal or lead them to buy deadly street drugs.

How to Counter the Circus of Pseudoscience, via -based medicine

Opinion | How to Counter the Circus of Pseudoscience Alternative-health gurus harness the language of medicine to sound authoritative. Doctors and other scientists must push back.

A disgrace... This shows why doctors not administrators must make medical decisions: At Veterans Hospital in Oregon, a Push for Better Ratings Puts Patients at Risk, Doctors Say, via

At Veterans Hospital in Oregon, a Push for Better Ratings Puts Patients at Risk, Doctors Say At Roseburg Veterans Affairs Medical Center, doctors and nurses said, hospital administrators reject high-risk patients in pursuit of a higher score.

The latest Trumpian anti-science outrage: Uproar Over Purported Ban at C.D.C. of Words Like ‘Fetus’, via

Uproar Over Purported Ban at C.D.C. of Words Like ‘Fetus’ The Department of Health and Human Services played down a report that officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention were told not to use several words in budget documents.

Tom Marsilje, a relentless advocate for cancer patients, dies at 45 https://t.co/X7w29fD53V via

Tom Marsilje, a relentless advocate for cancer patients, dies at 45 Tom Marsilje was eternally optimistic and willing to give of his time to help his fellow cancer patients find clinical trials and experimental therapies.

Anti-vaxxers 'extremely dangerous': Professor Brian Cox, via https://t.co/p3xQ0rVAxT

Anti-vaxxers 'extremely dangerous': Professor Brian Cox A British professor says anti-vaxxers are a 'threat to civilisation'.