Health as Wealth: Managed Care
(Part 7 of Stateside Healthcare: Art, Science, and Commerce?) Coming from that issue on medical malpractice and physicians practicing defensive medicine, it then becomes important for someone to be able to pay for all services rendered. This is where healthcare insurance comes in, and managed care systems such as the one KSC is practicing takes [...]
Legalities
(Part 6 of Stateside Healthcare: Art, Science, and Commerce?) While the Filipino patient’s legal rights may be similar or have equivalents to his/her US counterpart, there still are medical issues bordering with law that should be explored, and the most prominent of this (with a great effect on how US physicians practice) is medical malpractice. [...]
Medical Informatics: Streamlined Efficiency or Rigid Technology?
(Part 5 of Stateside Healthcare: Art, Science, and Commerce?) Perhaps the most striking of all aspects of US healthcare is the heavy use of information technology. Thus is posed this question: is medical informatics a boon or a bane in clinical practice? As part of the elective rotation, shadowing with a KSC hospitalist-internist was undertaken [...]
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