PODCAST: Doctors, Money and Conflicts of Interest

Medical Ethics – Ever on Guard

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By Aaron Carroll MD, MS
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I’m a doctor. My father is a doctor. My colleagues are doctors, the people I train are doctors, lots and lots of my friends are doctors.
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But, that doesn’t meant that doctors sometimes aren’t blind to certain issues like their own financial conflicts of interest. Sometimes we have to poke doctors with a stick. That’s how we show our love.
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Conflicts of interest are the topic of this Healthcare Triage video.

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This video episode is adapted from Aaron’s NYT piece on the topic. References can be found in the links there: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/09/ups…

John Green — Executive Producer
Stan Muller — Director, Producer
Aaron Carroll — Writer
Mark Olsen — Graphics

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About the Author

Dr. Carroll has published some of the seminal work on various types of health care reform, and continues to be a sought after speaker on cost, quality and access-and the Affordable Care Act and its implications for our future. Considered one of the leading pediatric informaticists in the U.S. he has received millions of dollars in grants to explore the use of information technology in health care. Dr. Carroll was the Primary Investigator on a grant from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality to study the true impact of malpractice claims on the practice of medicine.

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PODCAST: How Accurate was that Medical Test?

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Understanding Test Characteristics
By Aaron E. Carroll MD
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Does a positive test mean that you have a disease? Does a negative test mean you’re healthy? Unfortunately, the answer to both these questions isn’t a definitive “yes”. How good a test is depends on many things.
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Healthcare Triage: Frequent Lab Testing Isn’t Very Useful

A couple of weeks ago, Mark Cuban got into an interesting debate with much of the health wonk Twitter community (including me) over whether more lab testing is better. It began when he advocated that everyone get quarterly lab testing:

While I’m a fan of Cuban’s Shark Tank, and I respect his business acumen immensely, there are a couple of things wrong with this. It’s worth discussing them in detail. We’re going to do that here today, on Healthcare Triage.

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Healthcare Triage: Frequent Lab Testing Isn’t Very Useful

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