Search results for "Perspectives"
Letters to the Editor
Physicians will bear the costs of the update to ICD-10; population studies need to apply their predictive value to individual patients; health care reform can cover everyone only when it curbs escalating costs.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2009/09/letters.htm
1 Sep 2009
Finding common ground when some gain and others lose
Proposals that redistribute money pose a special challenge to physician membership organizations. Physicians expect their societies to represent their interests, but what happens when one subset of members stands to benefit at another's expense? ACP chooses a path that's best for patients.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2009/10/washington.htm
1 Oct 2009
Alzheimer's, genomics and the personal utility of testing
As many as one in 10 doctors get asked for “the blood testâ€ï¿½ for Alzheimer's risk. A flurry of research will further drive patient interest, but also cause rethinking of clinical guidelines that discourage such testing.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2009/11/genomics.htm
1 Nov 2009
Affordable health care puts individuals, society at odds
The public would have more confidence in the cost-control measures that emerge from health care reform if physicians led the discussion.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2009/11/washington.htm
1 Nov 2009
Physicians can help patients decide about end-of-life issues
The recent decrying of “government death panelsâ€ï¿½ undercuts patient welfare, patient autonomy and social justice, and physicians have a duty to take a leadership role in the debate over health care reform.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2009/11/presidents.htm
1 Nov 2009
A better Board of Regents for a better health care system
ACP's Board of Regents will reorganize to meet the future needs of the organization.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2010/01/presidents.htm
1 Jan 2010
Political perils of cost control complicate health care reform
Even if health reform passes, the problem of rising costs will not go away. And politicians cannot confront the fundamental issue that Americans can't have all the health care they want.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2010/01/washington.htm
1 Jan 2010
Calmer talk needed about mammography
Controversy about implementing new mammography guidelines shouldn't cloud talks between doctors and the women they counsel. Clarify what the guidelines really say, and share the decision-making with patients, experts counsel.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2010/02/breast.htm
1 Feb 2010
Filling in the GAPPs will strengthen evidence-based medicine
Little data supports the use of genomic testing for subjects such as warfarin dosing. Paradoxically, that lack of evidence leaves open the potential for the misuse of direct-to-consumer genomics tests for fun, or for their premature adoption by clinicians.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2010/02/genomics.htm
1 Feb 2010
Even with new legislation, health care reform would evolve
Every Congress has made its mark on Medicare since the program's inception in 1965. Success or failure for health care reform isn't the end of the journey, but another milestone.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2010/02/washington.htm
1 Feb 2010