Posted on February 24th, 2008 by Sean Khozin, MD, MPH
I would be worried if I were one of those thinly-veiled opportunist entities seeking fame and fortune at the expense of American physicians. Doctors are ready to fight for their rights and their patients’ wellbeing and they are hundreds of thousands of brilliant minds strong.
Yesterday, I announced the formation of a seven-member volunteer writing committee [...]
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Posted on February 19th, 2008 by Sean Khozin, MD, MPH
The open letter campaign on Sermo is building exponential momentum and has entered its second phase. I have written about this campaign previously on this blog. Today, I sent the following message, with a link to the posting about the campaign, to a group of physicians on Sermo:
Dear Colleague:
I would like bring your attention to [...]
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Posted on February 16th, 2008 by Sean Khozin, MD, MPH
Yesterday, the U.S. National Academy of Engineering (NAE) announced the grand challenges for engineering in the 21st century. A panel of 18 thought leaders, representing a diverse range of expertise, spent over a year trying to identify factors that can lead to improving life on our planet. The panel produced a list of 14 “grand [...]
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Posted on February 15th, 2008 by Sean Khozin, MD, MPH
Regina E. Herzlinger is the Nancy R. McPherson Professor of Business Administration Chair at the Harvard Business School. She is widely recognized for her research on consumer-driven healthcare and has been dubbed by Money as the “Godmother” of the movement. A consumer-driven healthcare model enables patients to control more of their healthcare dollars. This requires [...]
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Posted on February 14th, 2008 by Sean Khozin, MD, MPH
A US congressional committee is investigating whether the makers of Vytorin knew about the negative results of a key study showing that their expensive drug is no more effective than a cheaper generic.
Vtyorin, a cholesterol drug made by Merck and Schering-Plough Pharmaceuticals is a combination of ezetimibe [...]
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Posted on February 12th, 2008 by Sean Khozin, MD, MPH
Sermo, an online community of licensed US physicians with 50,000 members and growing rapidly, has become the platform for a potentially formidable campaign, allowing doctors to speak out and tell their side of the story about the broken healthcare system.
How the campaign started
I recently wrote a posting on Sermo entitled “Open letter to the people [...]
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