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Lately I’ve run into a number of cases in which two providers have a difference of opinion on the right treatment for a patient and the patient is caught in the middle, wondering who to trust. As physicians, we recognize that there are many gray areas in medicine in which great doctors can disagree. Evidence-basedContinue reading “The Trouble with Disagreements in Medical Diagnosis”

Disasters and other emergencies can be the single most costly event a jurisdiction encounters. Aside from immediate damage to life and property, recovery costs can go on for years. Yet years of back-to-back, “unprecedented” disasters show that many jurisdictions are woefully unprepared for these events. Even in well-funded cities, large-scale emergencies can quickly overwhelm cityContinue reading “Community preparedness helps mitigate the worst disasters”