Crazy I93 snow related crash. I don’t know how you get a car like that without some excessive speed. The crash is not the one shown in the preview above, it’s much more shocking.
Monthly Archives:
February 2011
Wired.com: Satellite Shows Winter Megastorm Painting U.S. White
No snow for us yet. Just a little ice and drizzle.
The New Yorker: Lower Costs and Better Care for Neediest Patients
The critical flaw in our health-care system that people like Gunn and Brenner are finding is that it was never designed for the kind of patients who incur the highest costs. Medicine’s primary mechanism of service is the doctor visit and the E.R. visit. (Americans make more than a billion such visits each year, according to the Centers for Disease Control.) For a thirty-year-old with a fever, a twenty-minute visit to the doctor’s office may be just the thing. For a pedestrian hit by a minivan, there’s nowhere better than an emergency room. But these institutions are vastly inadequate for people with complex problems: the forty-year-old with drug and alcohol addiction; the eighty-four-year-old with advanced Alzheimer’s disease and a pneumonia; the sixty-year-old with heart failure, obesity, gout, a bad memory for his eleven medications, and half a dozen specialists recommending different tests and procedures. It’s like arriving at a major construction project with nothing but a screwdriver and a crane.
An insightful look into our health care system by looking at some of the poorest and neediest patients. Lower costs were attained by giving better care.