Kathleen Stock says she quit university post over ‘medieval’ ostracism
Professor accused of transphobia claims lack of support from colleagues and unions led her to resignThe philosophy professor at the centre of a row over her views on gender identification and transgender rights has said she quit her post at Sussex University because of what she called “a medieval ex
On The Record (with daily recap)
Bipartisan Policy Center: Tax Reform Quick Summary Bipartisan Policy Center: Domenici-Rivlin Protect Medicare Act Today in TIE: Reflex, Austin looks at Domenici-Rivlin with competitive bidding, suggests Google Reader fixes, and plumbs NEJM’s take on the PSA kerfuffle, Don and Harold do bloggingheads
Malpractice risk, by physician specialty
A new paper in NEJM by Anupam Jena, Seth Seabury, Darius Lakdawalla, and Amitabh Chandra illuminates many of the important aspects of malpractice risk: how it varies by specialty, how many claims lead to payments, the size of payments, the chance of a claim in a year and over a career, etc. Accordin
Choice Inconsistencies among the Elderly: Evidence from Plan Choice in the Medicare Part D Program, by Jason Abaluck and Jonathan Gruber (AER) We evaluate the choices of elders across their insurance options under the Medicare Part D Prescription Drug plan, using a unique dataset of prescription dru
Most preventable medical errors do not result in a paid claim
Paid physician malpractice claims for adverse events in 2009 (from Bishop, Ryan & Casalino in this week’s JAMA): Inpatient 4910 Outpatient 4448 Both 966 Total 10,739 By way of comparison (my calculations): Incidence Number of US hospitals 5,795 <1 per hospital/year Number of admissions 37,479,709 0.
