When venture capitalist Martin Shrekli recently bought a pharmaceutical company and repackaged and repriced, by 5000%, an old drug that HIV patients use to treat fungal infection, he set the world of pharmaceutical pricing on fire. That kind of maverick decision by Shkreil made me, for one, realize how much our wellbeing is at the […]
Month: September 2015
It seems doctors and patients no longer share a commitment to the same vows. At least that is what a recent European study is suggesting after taking a robust look at whether patients and doctors are congruent in their views about what should happen during the consultation. Studies of the GULiVer-1 type of research are not […]
Reaction to my last post revealed that few are ready to let health die with dignity and rest in peace. Fair enough. But despite impassioned attachment it’s not apparent why health, in its dying throes, must attain a semi-hubristic status; or why the jettisoning of health is so threatening to humans; or why we no […]
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