Health Economics Archive

Dr. Peng Hui Lee, a Consultant Radiologist in the NHS, and author of the blog MidEssexRay, mentioned an old post of mine in his blog yesterday. The post in question, titled ‘Why does a CT scan cost so much in the USA?‘ is the one with the most comments on my blog. The comments, twenty-six [...]

The subtext of this post is obviously my inability to comprehend the high costs of healthcare in the USA. I am not going to add anything new to the arguments for or against defensive medicine. This debate has been raging in some corner or the other ever since the medical blogosphere came into existence.
What prompted [...]

After yet another a bad case of blogger’s block, I found this post today in Dr. Flea’s blog. I can’t thank him enough for giving me an idea to write about.
And he deserves another thank you for introducing a great new blogger.
Dr. Flea says…
I have maintained for some time that, in order to make a [...]