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• The Health Care Blog – Everything you always wanted to know about the Health Care system. But were

  By ROBBIE PEARL Soon after Apple released the original iPhone, my father, an unlikely early adopter, purchased one. His plan? “I’ll keep it in the trunk for emergencies,” he told me. He couldn’t fores...

• The Intersection of 911 and 988: Decriminalizing Mental Health Crises – The Health Care Blog

  By BEN WHEATLEY Effective July 2022, a new three-digit telephone number (988) will become the number to call in the case of mental health emergencies. Currently, 911 serves as the default number for p...

• How Can Patients Get Medical Records from a Closed Medical Practice? – The Health Care Blog

  By GRACE CORDOVANO, DEVEN McGRAW, and AARON MIRI The HIPAA Privacy Rule gives patients the right to copies of their medical records, with rare exceptions. When patients need a copy of their medical re...

• What Is An Abnormal Test Result? – The Health Care Blog

  By ROBERT MCNUTT, MD Most teachers of evidence-based-medicine talk about tests as "positive, or negative". A positive test is one in which the result of the test is abnormal; a negative test is one in...

• Why Is the USA Only the 35th Healthiest Country in the World? – The Health Care Blog

  By ETIENNE DEFFARGES According the 2019 Bloomberg Healthiest Country Index, the U.S. ranks 35th out of 169 countries. Even though we are the 11th wealthiest country in the world, we are behind pretty ...

• What Does an Ideal Healthcare System Look Like? – The Health Care Blog

  By ASHISH JHA, MD Austin Frakt and Aaron Carroll recently approached me about a New York Times UpShot piece aiming to rank eight healthcare systems they had chosen: Australia, Canada, France, Germany,...