Answers To Diseases

Paying physicians via capitation was soundly rejected by patients when it was tried in the HMO era a decade ago.
Massachusetts is trying again. According to a state commission, they recommend “replacing fee-for-service with a system that would use a single payment to cover most of a persons care for an entire year.”

According a recent study, 50 percent of physicians who go online for professional reasons use Wikipedia to answer health questions, and the number of doctors who this popular user-generated web encyclopedia has doubled over the past year.
The explanation for this is simple. Doctors, like everybody else, often turn to search engines like Google to quickly [...]