This week in the news..

From the New York Times: The U.S government in an effort to understand the problem with access to primary care physicians seek individuals to pose as mystery shoppers. Each physician will receive at least two calls from the fake patients. The study will track how long it takes for each fake patient to get an appointment if they are accepted and if they are not accepted,the study will keep track of the reasons.
I am not sure that the results from this study will be very useful to the problem America faces with the shortage of primary care physicians. The only way to fix the problem is to address the medicaid reimbursement problems and the low wages of primary care physician as compared to other specialties. But them maybe they data will led them to take a better look at the reimbursement structure for primary care treatments.

Helmets are for adults as well

The last time I Checked, adults are suppose to be wearing helmets as well. The culprits that bugs me the most are those who make their kids wear one and then ride around on their bicycle as if they are super people who are immuned to head injury.

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Healthcare news of the week June 5th

From Kaiser:Toolkit of prepared cell phone text messages for public emergency is available to the public through the department of health and human services.

Some program okay'd by the health care reform bill,lacks funding.

From WSJ heatlh blog;Physician's bonus based on quality are few and far between.