Answers To Diseases

The majority of patients on Medicare have several medical issues to contend with.
For instance, according to this piece in the NY Times, “Two-thirds of people over age 65, and almost three-quarters of people over 80, have multiple chronic health conditions, and 68 percent of Medicare spending goes to people who have five or more chronic [...]

The zeal to rapidly implement quality measures to improve patient care has had some unintended consequences.
Bob Wachter writes about the latest episode, namely, tight control of glucose in intensive care patients.