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  • The Cost Conundrum

    Atul Gawande

    May 25, 2009 |

    The New Yorker |

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    Response Location: United States, McAllen, Texas

    Studies show that spending more money on healthcare, past a certain level of care, worsens patient outcomes. Mayo Clinic has one of the highest-quality for the lowest cost healthcare systems in the nation. They achieve this by pooling all of the revenue from the hospital system and the doctors and paying everyone a salary, removing the incentive to increase personal revenue by increasing spending, and encouraging physicians to work with their colleagues and their teams to provide a higher level of patient care.

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  • One Spoonful at a Time

    Harriet Brown

    November 26, 2006 |

    The New York Times Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States

    The Maudsley approach to treating adolescent anorexia puts families at the center of the process, helping patients overcome their aversion to eating by calmly insisting that they nourish themselves back to physical and psychological health. This alternative to hospitalization has proven very effective in multiple studies, even though it contradicts traditional approaches, which keep parents at a distance based on the belief that they are part of the problem. The process is long and laborious, and relapses are common. But one mother's journey shows the hope that emerges when a deadly disease recedes.

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  • Fixing Hospitals

    Robert Langreth

    June 20, 2005 |

    Forbes |

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    Response Location: United States, Baltimore, Maryland

    Medical errors kill 100,000 Americans every year. A new vanguard is out to fix the fatal flaws, mostly by evaluating processes and looking for points of breakdown or confusion.

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