The Medical Marketplace: Communication Between Doctor and Patient
People sometimes encounter "potholes" in attempting to develop a productive relationship with their physician. The first critical barrier is being able to communicate effectively. It may be helpful to bring a written list of subjects and questions t...
The Medical Marketplace: Maintaining Quality Control
How does a profession as immense as the medical community maintain quality control? "We rat on our own," says David Goldstein. "We're dealing with people's lives." The Internet provides consumers with evaluative information about hospitals and curre...
The Medical Marketplace: Critical Care Decisions
There are systematic errors that are often made in judging one alternative versus another, one treatment versus another. It is important to be able to interpret the kinds of words physicians use to indicate probabilities or risk, and the likelihood ...
The Medical Marketplace: Selecting an Insurance Plan That Works Best For You
The complexity of the medical system in the United States is difficult for an outsider to understand, in part because there are so many options. From a practical point of view most people choose to enroll in a private or public health insurance plan...