The American system of medicine is a model of skill and innovation, with a pace of discovery that is adding good years to our lives.
The wealthy are the customers for each new innovation that comes along, whether it be telephone or television or what-not, so they might as well be the customers for a market system for medicine.
We believe Americans can do anything, and if we put aside partisan politics and work together, we can make our system of private medicine affordable and accessible for every one of our citizens.
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He wants to see doctors rewarded according to results, rather than procedures, because he argues that the current system is stacked against preventive medicine.
"If 40 million people come online with access to medicine, the system won't be able to accommodate them, " says Dr. Russell Robertson, chairman of the Council on Graduate Medical Education and a professor at Northwestern's Feinberg School of Medicine.
We are using a 1970s payment system to pay for 21st century medicine.
Another example of the deep impacts that scientists have made in medicine is with nervous system injuries (paralysis, blindness, deafness, etc).
Sabril warrants close attention because it's a clear near-miss for the drug approval system, a case where a medicine with a clear benefit for desperate patients foundered.
The move can help take stress off the primary health system and allow patients to get the medicine more quickly, he said.
The British officials who established NICE in the late 1990s pitched it as a body that would ensure that the government-run National Health System used "best practices" in medicine.
With its new manual, the APA might instead have started taking steps toward a system of classification that, as in medicine, organizes disorders according to what we know about their natures and causes.
The modern health-care system she experienced upended her idealistic view of medicine.
Two of my colleagues here at Forbes, Avik Roy and Robert Langreth, both excellent writers on the subject of health care, have gotten into a spat over the reasons for the high costs of medicine in the American health care system.
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Precision medicine, the real goal for the system, is a case where diagnosis is known and so is the therapy.
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No other fields except medicine have concluded that this kind of system is a rational way to match applicants and schools or job-seekers and jobs.
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"In the fee-for-service days, there was a very perverse system that rewarded doctors for doing way too much medicine, " says Dr. David Lawrence, chairman and CEO of California's huge, and nonprofit, Kaiser Permanente.
If you get sick under Japan's socialized health care system, the government will set the price of your medicine.
Dr Mike Clancy, president of the College of Emergency Medicine, said he agreed the "whole system" needed to work together.
The tiny Seattle-based company could change the way tumors are treated with its medicine, Provenge, which teaches the immune system to battle prostate cancer.
The study, which was also published in the New England Journal of Medicine, revealed no benefit to the telemonitoring system over 6 months inn reducing hospitalizations or deaths.
The company says anything from a GPS device to a medicine bottle can be linked in to the system, which could have implications in fields ranging from fitness to independent living.
"It could usher in an era of very personalized medicine where, based on the smart delivery system, one pill could take care of many different things for an individual, " he says.
Chairman of the British Medical Association's forensic medicine committee, George Fernie, said the prison system lacked a "comprehensive care package" from when someone entered the custodial chain to when they were released.
Even Britain, the mother of socialized medicine, allows a person to choose between the national system and his own arrangements.
But every time she vomited, she was throwing up her medicine -- and sugar was building up in her system.
The NYU system also includes the Tisch Hospital, the Rusk Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine, and the Hospital for Joint Diseases.
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Cushioned by the remarkable achievements of modern medicine, we often fail to appreciate how fragile our healthcare system can be, and the knock-on threat these risks in conjunction could pose to connected social and economic systems.
Preventative medicine, electronic records and slashing waste would make for a cheaper system.
Doctors at the Washington University School of Medicine investigated the role of macrophages, a part of the immune system, in the transition from the dry to the wet form of the disease.
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