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Pelzman's Picks: Data Manipulation In Healthcare

— Relying too much on labs, "provider" misnomer, and more

by Fred Pelzman, MD,

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    Fred Pelzman is an associate professor of medicine at Weill Cornell, and has been a practicing internist for nearly 30 years. He is medical director of Weill Cornell Internal Medicine Associates.

  • "Today, torturing the data to get the desired results is all too common," Tom Emerick writes in The Health Care Blog ~

  • Labs don't have all the answers, Heidi L. Wald, MD, MSPH, writes in JAMA Internal Medicine ~

  • The term "provider" is antiquated and causes some confusion in the modern medical home, Allan H. Goroll, MD, writes in JAMA ~

  • When a middle-aged person dies from colon cancer, it's a good time to get others to go in for their screening, Jane E. Brody writes in The New York Times ~

  • It's seriously time to revamp medical education and develop family medicine as a comprehensive specialty, William E. Cayley, Jr., MD, writes in The BMJ blog ~

  • A UnitedHealthcare pilot program is betting $65 million on prevention and well-being program, Phil Galewitz reports for Kaiser Health News ~

, of Weill Cornell Internal Medicine Associates and weekly blogger for 51˶, follows what's going on in the world of primary care medicine. Pelzman's Picks is a compilation of links to blogs, articles, tweets, journal studies, opinion pieces, and news briefs related to primary care that caught his eye.