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Most of us who write about health believe that knowledge can make a difference. But is the primary health issue facing us today a lack of knowledge? Or is it, instead, something I’d call the tenth-patient-of-the-day challenge? Here’s what I mean: You pick up a chart and head to Exam Room B, reading as you […] The most costly user of publicly financed emergency health services in San Francisco – a “frequent flyer†in emergency room parlance – is 49, Caucasian, schizophrenic, and addicted. He has been listed in at least two concurrent city systems as homeless (either continuously or episodically) for 16.6 years. He’s a frequent caller of ambulances (more […] |
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