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5% of patients account for 48.8% of total US healthcare spending, 1% account for 20.7%

https://meps.ahrq.gov/data_files/publications/st540/stat540.shtml The most commonly treated condition among the top 5 percent of spenders in 2019 was hypertension (46.2 percent), followed by osteoarthritis/other non-traumatic joint disorders (44.5...

I have been on call for 86 straight hours across two hospitals so the rest of my department could have a three-day holiday. Now, I feel lucky to have made it through in one piece [vent].

I work at an academic hospital. Mid-way through last academic year, my partner and I submitted our resignation. We were asked to stay part-way through...

Insurance companies now stating Peer-to-Peer's are now "for educational purposes only" and if you want to an appeal a decision the PATIENT (not the doc) has to initiate and go through the formal appeals process themselves.

Has anyone else experienced this? It's absolutely insane. As if peer to peer wasn't ridiculous enough now they are doing away with the system entirely...

Low health literacy: patients don't know how many pills they're taking each day?

Im reading an article on uptodate on "Heart failure: Self management". One passage reads: -- For instance, while 71 percent of low-literacy patients in one study could...