Collateral Damage
Predicting how the Supreme Court is going to rule on the constitutionality of the individual mandate, which may decide the overall fate of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), is tricky bu…
About the Blogger
Dr. Sachin D. Shah is an Assistant Professor with the Primary Care Group at the University of Chicago. He earned his MD at Wayne State University in his hometown of Detroit, and completed his residency in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics at the University of Rochester. He practices Primary Care Internal Medicine and Pediatrics as a teaching attending, precepts residents and medical students, and spends some time on the inpatient wards as well. His professional interests are in Global Health, Primary Care, Medical Education, and Medical Humanities.
Recent Posts
Help for Primary Care
I traveled last week to Washington, D.C., to meet with some members of Congress and their staffers, in an effort to help make the case for why Primary Care needs more support. …
Contriving Controversy
The Obama administration’s rule mandating coverage of oral contraception by most employers at no additional charge to their employees has been a lightning rod for controversy i…
Simplifying Complexity
Recent advances in medicine have been impressive. Patients today live longer than they ever have, even those with chronic medical illnesses that previously would have dramatically cu…
Government is Good at Healthcare
Our national political discourse these days is dominated by talk of cost control. Among other targets, Medicare is at real risk of being subjected to indiscriminate cuts in the…
Sharing the Responsibility
It’s no secret that health care expenditures in the U.S., accounting for over 17% of our nation’s GDP, threaten our nation’s economic solvency. What’s w…
A Different Kind of Mandate
About 3 weeks ago, by a margin of 2-1, the Eleventh Circuit Federal Court of Appeals in Atlanta struck down the constitutionality of a key provision of the Patient Protection and Aff…
Death of the Intern Call Night
I’m an attending physician at an academic medical center, and I spend a lot of time working with residents. I’m just over year removed from the completion of my own…
Safety and Numbers
Ask any physician who is either in training, or has completed training, and they’re likely to agree: Residency is hard. As a resident, you are expected to work long hours, in…
The Invisible Hand of Health Care Costs
This is the second part of a 2-part series of posts on the value of primary care physicians. So why is primary care so undervalued? A major reason is the way the provision of …
