Why Medicaid Cuts Hurt Us All
I usually write about healthcare reform from a pediatrician’s viewpoint, but what grabbed my attention recently was a story my husband, Randy, told me about an adult in his practice – a patient on Medicaid. Randy is a neurologist in a private practice, and Medicaid patients come from every corner of Rhode Island to see … Read more
Rethinking Healthcare Spending
Recent attempts to fundamentally alter Medicare, and the public outcry that followed, provide a working template for how to view broader health care reform. Everyone agrees that our healthcare system – and Medicare in particular – is financially unsustainable. Any step we take to address this requires a choice to either cut services or be … Read more
Healthcare Reform: Doctors Shaping the Narrative
With the roll out of the Affordable Care Act and perhaps more significantly the approach of the 2012 elections, public discussions of healthcare reform has been drowning in an alphabet soup of ACOs (not to be confused with the above ACA), CMS, SCHIP, and RUVs, just to name a few. The challenge is twofold. Most … Read more
Healthcare Reform: We Need to Reframe the Questions
One year after passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, the debate roars on, in Congress and everywhere else. And these debates often revolve around a big question, even when it is left unspoken or implied: Is health care a basic human right? In 1990 I made a quantum leap from practicing in … Read more
Next book event
Thursday, Feb 24th 6:30 PM Island Books 575 East Main Rd Middletown, RI
A Life Lesson Learned in Medical School, as featured in the NYT
January 28, 2011, 1:20 pm A Life Lesson Learned in Medical School By MAGGIE KOZEL, M.D. Thomas Northcut/Getty Images It was in my second year of medical school that I learned one of the most important lessons of my career: That it can be hard to distinguish truth from a perfectly good answer. Certainty was … Read more
“The Color of Atmosphere” reading and booksigning
Island Books 575 E. Main Rd, Middletown, RI February 24th, 6:30 PM
“The Color of Atmosphere” book reading/signing/discussion
Central Baptist Church, Jamestown 99 Narragansett Ave., Jamestown, RI February 17th, 7 PM Books will be available for purchase.
Little Pharma: The Medication of U.S. Children
The Wall Street Journal reported this week that a study of prescription patterns in 2009, conducted by IMS Health, showed that 25% of children in the US were on regular medication. IMS Health is a firm that provides “marketing intelligence” to pharmaceutical companies. The firm’s job is to keep the $800 billion per year global … Read more
Confessions of a Worn Out Pediatrician
I used to practice pediatrics. It has been several years since I decided to leave medicine, but people still ask me about it, and I find myself offering neat explanations between gulps of coffee. Of course, the full truth is much more complicated. The full truth has as much to do with our health care … Read more
Available now in bookstores everywhere: “The Color of Atmosphere: One Doctor’s Journey In and Out of Medicine” by Maggie Kozel, M.D.
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Goodreads Book Giveaway
Enter to winThe Color of Atmosphere
by Maggie Kozel
Giveaway ends April 15, 2011.
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