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S1 Ep182: The interchangeable physician, with Lawrence Casalino, M.D.
Lawrence Casalino, M.D., Ph.D., M.P.H., practiced primary care for 20 years before spending six on the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission. In his recent New England Journal of Medicine essay, "Physicians, Corporatization, and the Unmeasured Quality of Care," he makes an argument most physicians will recognize from the inside: the accuracy and timeliness of a diagnosis, the trust built over years with a patient, the judgment behind sending someone to exactly the right specialist.
None of it can be measured at scale, so none of it gets rewarded.
Casalino talks with Medical Economics Senior…
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