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Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke says the U.S. recession is over. But even if a recovery is under way, for millions of people there's little reason to celebrate, according to studies led by Till Marco von Wachter, a Columbia University economist. His research found that the deleterious effects of a downturn on its victims can last decades and, for some, actually prove fatal. Von Wachter talked with TIME recently about his findings...
Although Johnson thinks his case was a "rare aberrant fluke," that's not exactly true. More than 1 in 3 doctors in a 2002 survey by the Harvard School of Public Health reported errors in their own or a family member's medical care. Dr. Robert Wachter, chief of the medical service at the University of California, San Francisco Medical Center, who co-wrote last year's best seller Internal Bleeding: The Truth Behind America's Terrifying Epidemic of Medical Mistakes, says he has seen it all: patients who had the wrong leg amputated, were given the wrong (and deadly...
...percentage of heart-attack patients were prescribed beta blockers upon arrival or sell you a report about your particular doctor. The problem is that it takes a doctorate in statistics to sort out the data. "The world's best orthopedic surgeon will be sent everyone's disaster cases," says Wachter. "He may be spectacular and still have worse outcomes than the crummy surgeon across the street who has better outcomes because he gets the slam dunks." Almost every knee replacement results in few days of post-op fever. It's normal--but it can still be cited in a report...
...Surgeons. The Semmelweis Society agrees; its 85 members are mostly doctors who claim to be victims of "malicious peer review," in which the process is used to damage competitors or punish whistle-blowers. Support for reform is also widespread among doctors who work in patient-safety policymaking, says Robert Wachter, co-author of Internal Bleeding: The Truth Behind America's Terrifying Epidemic of Medical Mistakes. "We need as transparent and objective a system as possible," he says...
...Capitol Hill in May to lobby Congress to codify such principles. But they haven't managed to get even a hearing on the topic. Most reform advocates say it would be better for doctors to adopt new standards on their own. "Doctors already feel beleaguered" by regulation, says Wachter. More rules imposed by outsiders would be seen as "intrusion...