Money and Finance
- Nassim Taleb Quote
From Antifragile: Subtraction of a substance not seasoned by our evolutionary history reduces the possibility of Black Swans while leaving one open to improvements. Should the improvements occur, we can be pretty comfortable that they are as free of unseen...
- Interview With Atul Gawande - By Alex Howard
Found via Simoleon Sense. Dr. Atul Gawande (@Atul_Gawande) has been a bard in the health care world, straddling medicine, academia and the humanities as a practicing surgeon, medical school professor, best-selling author and staff writer at the New Yorker...
- Dr. Atul Gawande - 2009 Commencement Speeches
Dr. Atul Gawande gave two commencement speeches in June. The first I found via the Farnam Street blog. (Below are some of excerpts. Click on the paragraphs for the entire speeches.) June 4, 2009 Speech at the HSPH Commencement 2009 We have arrived, I...
- Owens & Minor Inc. (omi) Dividend Stock Analysis
It's been quite a while since I've posted a stock analysis and I apologize for that. Life happened to get busy and things just got in the way that I didn't have the time to compile all of the data and get some posts up. Have no fear though...
- Stryker (syk) Dividend Stock Analysis
I really want to get more exposure to the healthcare industry as I currently only have Medtronic in my FI Portfolio. Late last month I looked at Baxter International (BAX) and really liked what I saw, but unfortunately I had no free capital so I couldn't...
Money and Finance
Patients’ Costs Skyrocket; Specialists’ Incomes Soar
Kim Little had not thought much about the tiny white spot on the side of her cheek until a physician’s assistant at her dermatologist’s office warned that it might be cancerous. He took a biopsy, returning 15 minutes later to confirm the diagnosis and schedule her for an outpatient procedure at the Arkansas Skin Cancer Center in Little Rock, 30 miles away.
That was the prelude to a daylong medical odyssey several weeks later, through different private offices on the manicured campus at the Baptist Health Medical Center that involved a dermatologist, an anesthesiologist and an ophthalmologist who practices plastic surgery. It generated bills of more than $25,000.
“I felt like I was a hostage,” said Ms. Little, a professor of history at the University of Central Arkansas, who had been told beforehand that she would need just a couple of stitches. “I didn’t have any clue how much they were going to bill. I had no idea it would be so much.”
Ms. Little’s seemingly minor medical problem — she had the least dangerous form of skin cancer — racked up big bills because it involved three doctors from specialties that are among the highest compensated in medicine, and it was done on the grounds of a hospital. Many specialists have become particularly adept at the business of medicine by becoming more entrepreneurial, protecting their turf through aggressive lobbying by their medical societies, and most of all, increasing revenues by offering new procedures — or doing more of lucrative ones.
- Nassim Taleb Quote
From Antifragile: Subtraction of a substance not seasoned by our evolutionary history reduces the possibility of Black Swans while leaving one open to improvements. Should the improvements occur, we can be pretty comfortable that they are as free of unseen...
- Interview With Atul Gawande - By Alex Howard
Found via Simoleon Sense. Dr. Atul Gawande (@Atul_Gawande) has been a bard in the health care world, straddling medicine, academia and the humanities as a practicing surgeon, medical school professor, best-selling author and staff writer at the New Yorker...
- Dr. Atul Gawande - 2009 Commencement Speeches
Dr. Atul Gawande gave two commencement speeches in June. The first I found via the Farnam Street blog. (Below are some of excerpts. Click on the paragraphs for the entire speeches.) June 4, 2009 Speech at the HSPH Commencement 2009 We have arrived, I...
- Owens & Minor Inc. (omi) Dividend Stock Analysis
It's been quite a while since I've posted a stock analysis and I apologize for that. Life happened to get busy and things just got in the way that I didn't have the time to compile all of the data and get some posts up. Have no fear though...
- Stryker (syk) Dividend Stock Analysis
I really want to get more exposure to the healthcare industry as I currently only have Medtronic in my FI Portfolio. Late last month I looked at Baxter International (BAX) and really liked what I saw, but unfortunately I had no free capital so I couldn't...