http://polyscience.org Fri, 05 Feb 2010 20:47:49 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 http://polyscience.org/articles/drug-resistant-bacteria-1/comment-page-1/#comment-3711 MRSA infections in prisons on the rise :: OnThePharm Mon, 31 Jul 2006 13:18:00 +0000 http://polyscience.org/articles/drug-resistant-bacteria-1/#comment-3711 [...] I’ve said before that I think that drug-resistant bacteria are going to become one of the nastiest medical problems in first world countries in the next 10-15 years. [...] [...] I’ve said before that I think that drug-resistant bacteria are going to become one of the nastiest medical problems in first world countries in the next 10-15 years. [...]

]]> http://polyscience.org/articles/drug-resistant-bacteria-1/comment-page-1/#comment-2664 OnThePharm » Managing medicine: when more is less Sun, 28 May 2006 21:02:25 +0000 http://polyscience.org/articles/drug-resistant-bacteria-1/#comment-2664 [...] There’s a push and pull, of course. Doctors get paid for procedures they perform, and they don’t get paid if they don’t perform them. Most docs aren’t money-hungry treatment-pushers, but they do arguably have vested interests on both sides of the dollar sign. On the one hand there are their patients who might benefit more from simply letting things ride, and then there are the revenues for their hospital or practice that they stand to generate if they prescribe a certain treatment or test. And then there’s also the issue of “patient satisfaction,” which in the era of medicine-as-a-business places more emphasis on keeping the customer happy than it does on positive therapeutic outcomes. This leads to the phenomenon of patients feeling entitled to a prescription simply because they visited their doctor. If the doc doesn’t provide at least something, the patient may feel as though they aren’t truly being served. It’s a tough balancing act, and these pressures are the reasons things like antibiotic-resistant bacteria are becoming a bigger problems in the first world. | 5:00 pm | [...] [...] There’s a push and pull, of course. Doctors get paid for procedures they perform, and they don’t get paid if they don’t perform them. Most docs aren’t money-hungry treatment-pushers, but they do arguably have vested interests on both sides of the dollar sign. On the one hand there are their patients who might benefit more from simply letting things ride, and then there are the revenues for their hospital or practice that they stand to generate if they prescribe a certain treatment or test. And then there’s also the issue of “patient satisfaction,” which in the era of medicine-as-a-business places more emphasis on keeping the customer happy than it does on positive therapeutic outcomes. This leads to the phenomenon of patients feeling entitled to a prescription simply because they visited their doctor. If the doc doesn’t provide at least something, the patient may feel as though they aren’t truly being served. It’s a tough balancing act, and these pressures are the reasons things like antibiotic-resistant bacteria are becoming a bigger problems in the first world. | 5:00 pm | [...]

]]> http://polyscience.org/articles/drug-resistant-bacteria-1/comment-page-1/#comment-196 polyscience.org » Introduction to antibiotic resistance and what it means for you Thu, 15 Sep 2005 02:24:52 +0000 http://polyscience.org/articles/drug-resistant-bacteria-1/#comment-196 [...] I’ve had this article written for about two weeks now, and I’ve been holding onto it for a short time, but I’m not sure why. So here it is. [...] [...] I’ve had this article written for about two weeks now, and I’ve been holding onto it for a short time, but I’m not sure why. So here it is. [...]

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