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'Miserable' Doctors Prescribe A Different Career

Celeste Headlee | NPR | April 17, 2014

A lot of children grow up wanting to be doctors, but now some physicians are discouraging others from joining the profession. What has changed over the years?

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How Being Poor Makes You Sick

Olga Khazan | The Atlantic | May 21, 2014

Some patients are being "prescribed" bicycles and groceries as doctors attempt to treat the lifestyle consequences of poverty, in addition to its medical symptoms. Can it work?...

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How Data Analytics, GIS Helps Dartmouth Atlas Influence Healthcare

Brian Eastwood | CIO | February 3, 2014

The Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care has more than 100 TB of Medicare claims data. This information, combined with peer-reviewed medical research, informs healthcare policy and helps institutions compare their quality metrics. Like any good atlas, it also uses data-driven maps to prove its points. Read More »

Poor Integration Between Hospital EHRs And NICUs

Paul Levy | Not Running A Hospital | June 6, 2013

Responding to my story about lack of funding for electronic health records for pediatric nursing homes, Brian Carter, a superb neonatologist at Children's Mercy Hospital in Kansas City, notes... Read More »

Virus Hitting The U.S. Could Be 'Tip Of Iceberg,' CDC Official Says

Michael Martinez, John Newsome, Elizabeth Cohen and Jen Christensen | CNN.com | September 9, 2014

A respiratory virus is sending hundreds of children to hospitals throughout the Midwest and beyond, health officials say.  The unusually high number of hospitalizations reported could be "just the tip of the iceberg in terms of severe cases," said Mark Pallansch, a virologist and director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Division of Viral Diseases...

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