Recommended Reading
Articles and resources on the patient experience, with an eye toward Gel Health
Sam Brown at Gel 2008
Articles and resources on the patient experience, with an eye toward Gel Health
Sam Brown at Gel 2008
From the radio show This American Life, More Is Less and Someone Else's Money - two outstanding shows on the health care mess. (October 9 and 16, 2009) Click the "Full Episode" link to listen.
The family plan (on involving parents in newborn ICUs) - WSJ, October 27, 2009, as part of their Innovations in Health-Care Delivery report. (See also piece on comparing docs' data online).
The telltale wombs of Lewiston, Maine - NPR, October 8, 2009. Good backstory on Jack Wennberg, physicians sharing data (see Gawande 6-1-09) and the genesis of the Dartmouth Atlas.
A Life Worth Living: A Doctor's Reflections on Illness in a High-Tech Era, by Gel Health speaker Dr. Robert Martensen
A Front-Row Seat as a Health Care System Goes Awry - New York Times, Jan 19, 2009 (a conversation with Dr. Robert Martensen)
ChefMD's Big Book of Culinary Medicine: A Food Lover's Road Map to Losing Weight, Preventing Disease, and Getting Really Healthy by Gel Health speaker Dr. John La Puma
Video - Op-Ed: Physician, Say You're Sorry (featuring the work of Gel Health speaker Dr. Sigall Bell) - New York Times, Nov 24, 2008
How American Health Care Killed My Father - David Goldhill, The Atlantic, Sept 2009
On several US towns that have improved healthcare while decreasing cost - posted 8-14-09
The Five Big Health-Care Dilemmas - Karen Tumulty, Time magazine 6-5-09
The Cost Conundrum: What a Texas town can teach us about health care - Atul Gawande, New Yorker 6-1-09 (and see the response from Texan docs, Gawande's rebuttal, and other followups: 1 and 2)
Lessons from a frugal innovator: The rich world's bloated health-care systems can learn from India's entrepreneurs - Economist 4-16-09
Health 2.0: How far can interactive digital medicine go? - Economist 4-16-09
Getting There from Here: How should Obama reform health care? - Atul Gawande, New Yorker 1-26-09
The Moral Hazard Myth: The bad idea behind our failed health-care system - Malcolm Gladwell, New Yorker 8-29-05
Piecework: Medicine's money problem - Atul Gawande, New Yorker 4-4-05
Suggest others: email mark at goodexperience.com