More articles from Editorial
- The promises and risks of inpatient specialization
Much of the benefit of hospitalist care will be lost if we place the emphasis on wringing every last nickel out of the cost of providing care.
- Cancer information and the Internet: Benefits and risks
The Internet has potential to educate the public about health care, Kit also can harm through misleading and deceptive information.
- Alternative medicine: Underevaluated or ineffective?
Ignorance of what our patients are taking is not bliss.
- Medical McCarthyism: Medicare, teaching hospitals, and charges of health care fraud
Real fraud cannot be tolerated, but spurious fraud charges are equally intolerable.
- A proper role for organized medicine in a new era
Medical societies often fail to understand the needs of the new breed of physician.
- Treating populations rather than individuals: the subtle danger of managed care
Is managed care improving the quality of health care for populations at the expense of care for individuals?
- Chronic disease management and managed care: specialists have an important role
In its current incarnation, managed care has a major flaw: it fails to address the health care needs of people with chronic disease.
- Every action causes a reaction: the inevitable backlash against managed care
We should be wary of getting carried away with HMO-bashing, lest we create a nightmarish system that has all the limited choices of managed care—without reducing costs.
- Successes in disease eradication: lessons for the future
Imminent success in eradicating polio and guinea worm infestation illustrates the importance of remaining steadfast in our support of basic and applied medical research.
- A renewed mission and a new look
The Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine’s new mission statement, “Dedicated to Lifelong Learning,” reflects our shift in focus to continuing education for physicians. The more functional new design uses typography and color to help readers find information quickly.