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• A Series of Concentric Circles: A Framework for Physician Payment Reform

  I’m just back from the ABIM Foundation’s Summer Forum in New Mexico, increasingly a who’s who of the health policy world, our Davos. I came away from the meeting with a new framework for thinking about the sticky issue of physician payment reform – specifically, Read More... Posted Fri, Aug 14 2009 8:25 AM by Bob Wachter | 6 Comments Filed under: Hospital Care, Efficiency, Hospitalists/Hospital Medicine, Health Policy, Medical Ethics

• My Patients Are Dying… And I’ve Never Been Prouder

  I’m on clinical service now and my patients are dying left and right. And I’ve never been prouder of my own care, and that delivered by my colleagues and hospital.When I was in training, a patient’s death was invariably considered a medical failure, and Read More... Posted Thu, Nov 27 2008 8:16 PM by Bob Wachter | 7 Comments Filed under: Hospital Care, Transparency and Reporting, Quality Measurement, Medical Education/Academia, Hospitalists/Hospital Medicine, Health Policy, Medical Ethics