Saving Money and Surviving the Healthcare Crisis
Davis Liu, MD
- Bio
- Davis Liu, M.D., is a practicing board-certified family physician and author of the book, Stay Healthy, Live Longer, Spend Wisely - Making Intelligent Choices in America's Healthcare System. He graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. He received his medical degree from the University of Connecticut School of Medicine. Learn more about what you must do to stay healthy and well at WWW.DAVISLIUMD.COM. Follow me at Twitter - davisliumd
MY RECENT POSTS
- Why Understanding Teaming Is
Critical for Health Care
Leaders
April 27, 2012 12:52AM - Will Doctors or Patients Bend
the Cost Curve?
April 05, 2012 09:20PM - Part II - What Doctors and
Healthcare Can Learn from the
New England Patriots
March 09, 2012 02:12AM - What Doctors and Healthcare
Can Learn from Tom Brady, Bill
Belichick, and the New England
Patriots
January 09, 2012 01:10PM - White Coke Cans and the
Importance of Visual Cues in
Reducing Medical Errors
December 02, 2011 09:49AM
MY RECENT COMMENTS
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everyone's comments!”
April 26, 2011 02:05AM - “Green tea is good for a
variety of things, but
lowering
cholesterol isn't one
of…”
October 03, 2010 01:12AM - “The issue isn't if
people die, but rather if they
died sooner
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August 14, 2010 06:36PM - “Yes, mammograms have
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August 01, 2010 12:41AM - “You nailed in right on.
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August 01, 2010 12:17AM
Davis Liu, MD's Links
APRIL 27, 2012 12:52AM
Why Understanding Teaming Is Critical for Health Care Leaders
APRIL 5, 2012 9:20PM
Will Doctors or Patients Bend the Cost Curve?
The American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) and
nine other professional medical societies announced that doctors
should perform 45 tests and procedures less often than currently
done because there is no good medical evidence that they add any
value. Specifically, a xray or other imaging for low ba/…
MARCH 9, 2012 2:12AM
Part II - What Doctors and Healthcare Can Learn from the New England Patriots
Although my team, the New England Patriots lost Super Bowl XLVI to
the New York Giants in one of the most exciting and tense games in
recent memory, reviewing both the pre and post game coverage
provided even more learning for doctors and healthcare than my
prior post. One can demand…
JANUARY 9, 2012 1:10PM
What Doctors and Healthcare Can Learn from Tom Brady, Bill Belichick, and the New England Patriots
As the new year starts, I'm eager for a fresh start and working on
improving myself both physically and emotionally. I'm also eager
for the NFL playoffs and seeing how my favorite team, the New
England Patriots, fares under the leadership of Coach Bill
Belichick and quarterback Tom Brady. Doctors and…
DECEMBER 2, 2011 9:49AM
White Coke Cans and the Importance of Visual Cues in Reducing Medical Errors
I read with some amused interest that many consumers were
upset that Coca Cola had updated their traditional red regular Coke
can for a holiday themed one complete with white packaging. The
new holiday design was felt to be too similar to the diet Coke,
which is silver. Although Coke has…
OCTOBER 11, 2011 8:48AM
Your Medical Mind - Book Review. Best for Patients or Doctors?
SEPTEMBER 9, 2011 3:21AM
Do Computers Really Come Between Doctors and Patients? Is the Future Here?
One of my favorite movies is Back to the Future starring Michael J.
Fox. I must admit after reading this New York Times piece,
titled "When
Computers Come Between Doctors and Patients" I have to
wonder.
Am I fortunate to be coming from the future? Because I completely disagree with Dr. Dan… Read full post »
Am I fortunate to be coming from the future? Because I completely disagree with Dr. Dan… Read full post »
SEPTEMBER 5, 2011 6:17PM
A Doctor Thanks His Mentor - Steve Jobs
I've been reading
A Game Plan for Life: The Power of Mentoring written by famed
UCLA basketball coach John Wooden. Wooden spends half of his
book thanking the people who had a powerful influence on his life,
coaching, philosophy, and outlook on life. Important people
included his father,/…
AUGUST 21, 2011 5:32PM
NY Times - Finding a Quality Doctor - Why the Author and Doctors Are Wrong.
The New York Times recently published an article
titled,
Finding a Quality Doctor, Dr. Danielle Orfi an internist at
NYU, laments how she was unable to perform as well as expected in
the areas of patient care as it related to diabetes. From the
August
2010 New England Journal of Medicine… Read full post »
AUGUST 15, 2011 7:20PM
Newsweek - Just Say No! - One Word Can Save Your Life. Too Simplistic. Doctors Need to Help.
Newsweek has a very provocative and yet incredibly too
simplistic piece for the public and patients on its cover story -
One Word Can Save Your Life: No! - New research shows how some
common tests and procedures aren’t just
expensive, but can do more harm than good.
The piece is actually/…
The piece is actually/…
JULY 27, 2011 10:39AM
Are Patients Becoming Day Traders?
JULY 5, 2011 9:56AM
Required Reading for Medical Students, Interns, and Residents.
I have had the privilege of working at an
organization which is actively improving the lives of its members
and also was
mentioned by the President as a model for the nation.
Over the past few years, I have also demonstrated to first year
medical students what 21st century primary care/…
JUNE 12, 2011 1:48PM
Physician Autonomy, Professionalism, and Protocols – Mutually Exclusive?
Doctors are professionals. But are doctors
cowboys or pit crews? Recently, physician writer, Dr. Atul
Gawande, spoke about the challenges for the next generation of
doctors in his commencement speech titled,
Cowboys and Pit Crews, at Harvard Medical School. Gawande
notes that advanc/…
JUNE 2, 2011 6:56PM
What Dr. Oz Learned From His Cancer Scare - Honest and Unplugged. What Doctors Can Learn.
Dr. Mehmet Oz recently had a piece in Time titled
"What
I Learned from My Cancer Scare" in which he became the the more
humbled Mr. Mehmet Oz. As noted previously here,
Dr. Oz last summer had a colonoscopy at age 50 and much to
everyone's surprise had a precancerous colon… Read full post » 
The New York Times recently published an article
titled the Family
Can't Give Away Solo Practice wistfully noting that doctors
like Dr. Ronald Sroka and "doctors like him are increasingly being
replaced by teams of rotating doctors and nurses who do not know
their patients nearly/…
APRIL 14, 2011 12:56AM
Does America Want Apple or Android for Health Care?
APRIL 2, 2011 2:42AM
The Rise of Desktop Medicine -- Wrong Terminology, But Right Thing to Do
MARCH 31, 2011 12:41AM
Save Money on Medical Costs - Get Your Old Medical Records
There are many tips to saving money on medical costs like asking
your doctor only for generic medications, choosing an insurance
plan with a high deductible and lower monthly premiums, going to an
urgent care or retail clinic rather than the emergency room, and
getting prescriptions mailed rather tha…
MARCH 7, 2011 12:52AM
Colon Cancer Screening Guidelines - Colonoscopy Better Than Sigmoidoscopy? The Truth and the Myth
No one should lose a love one to a disease when caught early is often treatable. Although for both men and women, colon/…
FEBRUARY 22, 2011 11:25AM
Why Consumer-Driven Health Care Will Fail
FEBRUARY 14, 2011 9:28AM
What Doctors Wish Their Patients Knew - Critique of the March 2011 Consumer Reports article
First, I'm a big fan of Consumer Reports and even
listed their Consumer
Reports Best Buy Drugs website in my book,
Stay Healthy, Live Longer, Spend Wisely - Making Intelligent
Choices in America's Healthcare System, because of its
accurate, unbiased, and money saving information in getting
the&n/…
FEBRUARY 3, 2011 6:07PM
Why This Primary Care Doctor Loves his Electronic Health Record
A recent post in the Wall Street Journal Health
Blog noted that
a study found electronic medical records don't improve outpatient
quality. The authors of the Archives of Internal Medicine
article,
Electronic Health Records and Clinical Decision Support
Systems, correctly points out that we shou/…
JANUARY 23, 2011 10:37AM
Why the End of Internal Medicine As We Know It - Might Be A Good Thing!
JANUARY 12, 2011 9:52AM
Patients Lie. Why Doctors Should be Like Medical Students. A Good History is a Checklist.
The most common question first year medical
students ask is how do they become efficient at taking a patient
history. Can they skip certain parts of taking the patient
history and avoid asking about a social history, whether a patient
drinks, smokes, uses drugs, or is sexually/…
DECEMBER 23, 2010 2:51PM
The Best Book on Healthcare Reform (or Surviving It)
rahul k. parikh
Kerry Lauerman
Joan Walsh
Salon.com