I already wanted to read the Gawande, and now I want to read it even more! His recent New Yorker piece on checklists made me want to paste a sign to myself saying: "If seriously injured, send only to Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston and ask for Dr. Gawande."
Carl Elliot's forthcoming book might be of interest to you as well--Beacon's putting it out in the fall and it's presumably about the increasing commercialization of medicine and how that affects care. I'll let you know when I have a copy to pass on if you're interested.
Thanks for the links! I would be interested in the Elliot book. I hadn't heard of the Mexican proposal, but it does sound like the proposals in my note.
industrializationaccommodatinglyFebruary 28 2008, 04:23:05 UTC
You make Gawande's claim about C-sections sound much like claims for certain drill-based and test-oriented-- but, apparently, effective-- teaching methods used in elementary and middle schools with poor students, methods whose great attraction is that you can get decent results (not just better scores but things like better school attendance and fewer dropouts in subsequent years) even with badly-trained teachers. Good teachers hate these methods, but they would. (The best-known among such methods has a four-letter acronymn, but I forget what it is.)
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Carl Elliot's forthcoming book might be of interest to you as well--Beacon's putting it out in the fall and it's presumably about the increasing commercialization of medicine and how that affects care. I'll let you know when I have a copy to pass on if you're interested.
Also, did you see this recent story on engagement cancellation fees in Mexico? It made me think of your article on returning rings and such.
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