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Eating Soup with a Fork: Reshaping Global Health Care Delivery to Meet the Challenges of NCDs

Posted on September 11, 2011 by admin

In the lead up to the UN High-Level Summit on Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs), there is been much discourse – and the rightfully so – on the need for greater public awareness of the threat NCDs, the framing of NCDs as … Continue reading →

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Competing on Outcomes, The Way to True Health Care Reform

Posted on July 17, 2010 by admin

On my drive in to work this past week I came across this: a bus-side advertisement for a local hospital (sadly, not mine) claiming that it was “home to the city’s best transplant outcomes.” Normally I drive right by these … Continue reading →

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Sometimes It Takes A Village

Posted on June 15, 2010 by admin

“You know, what Mr. HD really needs is for his mom or somebody to chain herself to him…” [the ICU team laughs] …”But seriously, he needs to be watched over, he needs to be talked to. He needs someone to … Continue reading →

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