New Orleans I go for a physical annually, like you’re supposed to do. I basically trust my doctor, largely because she keeps it simple, doesn’t make me do some tests I don’t want, stretches out the EKGs for years, and sometimes forgets to make me, how should I say this, bend over. To get insurance …
Tag: Dr. Atul Gawande
Cheesecake Factory Model for Big Medicine Healthcare Delivery
New Orleans Catching up on back issues of the New Yorker from my time off-the-grid, I stumbled onto a great piece by Dr. Atul Gawande on “Big Med.” Believe it or not, he shrewdly argues that huge service industry operations, like the Cheesecake Factory of all places, might just be the model for a different …