Michael Millenson
Contributing Editor at The Health Care Blog (THCB)
Quality-of-care evangelist via consulting, research, writing and speaking. Early and vocal advocate for better, safer, more patient-centered care.
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1 week ago |
thehealthcareblog.com | Michael Millenson
By MICHAEL MILLENSON“The New Yorker House Style Joins The Internet Age” announced the magazine’s daily newsletter under the byline of Andrew Boynton, whose appropriately old-fashioned title was “Head of Copy.” Among the alterations Boynton acknowledged readers might feel “long overdue,” were “Internet” becoming “internet,” “Web site” consolidating to “website” and “cell phone” becoming “cellphone.” Other quirky spellings (teen-ager, per cent, etc.) were deliberately retained.
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3 weeks ago |
forbes.com | Michael Millenson
In an ironic twist, the agency charged with fighting the kind of medical misdiagnosis that had Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on the brink of unnecessary brain surgery is set to be eliminated in the reorganization plan Kennedy announced for the department he heads. The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality is the only federal agency specifically charged by Congress with targeting mistakes like the famous misdiagnosis suffered by Kennedy.
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1 month ago |
thehealthcareblog.com | Michael Millenson
By MICHAEL MILLENSONFour days after emergency surgery and barely able to walk, Heather Sherman flew from Chicago to Washington for first-day-of-work onboarding at the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.
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1 month ago |
forbes.com | Michael Millenson
Four days after emergency surgery and barely able to walk, Heather Sherman flew from Chicago to Washington for first-day-of-work onboarding at the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Fourteen months later, Sherman suddenly became one of the thousands of federal employees summarily dismissed by a weekend email telling them they were “not fit for future employment.”The trauma of that abrupt ending in mid-February – giving her just a few hours before all access was shut off – still lingers.
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1 month ago |
forbes.com | Michael Millenson
An unusual study gives a new twist to the idea of “patient-reported outcome measures” by training two patients to review doctors’ notes on treatment of a common orthopedic injury and then comparing their verdict to that of doctor reviewers. One type of disagreement stood out. When the doctor group ruled that the treatment of a fracture near the shoulder joint was a failure, the patient group was likely to agree.
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