(Continued from Part I) Clearly, patients aren’t using primary care services as much as they should – but can that all be chalked up to convenience? Studies say no. According to an 2015 NPR poll, 20% of surveyed patients choose urgent or emergency care...
You wake up with a cough. It’s not a bad one, you decide, and definitely not enough to keep you home from work. Rent’s due in a week, and you know that missing out on the ten hours of the construction work your boss found you would put you awfully close to...
This is a continuation of a previous post published on Robert’s blog. Let’s hop across the pond to France for a moment. Widely accepted as having one of the best healthcare systems in the world, France requires its citizens to enroll in government-funded...
Not too long ago, I struck up a conversation while waiting in line at the pharmacy counter. The woman I spoke to was middle-aged, with brown hair and tired eyes. This was around the peak of media controversy about the ACHA, so we ended up chatting about our respective...
It’s two in the morning and you’re sitting in an uncomfortable chair in the pediatrics ward, scared out of your mind. Your five-year-old daughter started coughing a week ago, but you figured that she had picked up a cold from another child at her kindergarten –...
