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Prepareforyourcare.org helps patients with advance care planning; Content focuses on defining values, communication.

Avoidable Care

http://avoidablecare.org/

Why we need an economic informed consent

http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2012/04/economic-informed-consent.html

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Live Frogs, Slowly Cooked to Perfection

Live Frogs, Slowly Cooked to Perfection (Open as PDF)

Addressing Requests by Patients for Nonbeneficial Interventions

http://jama.ama-assn.org/content/307/2/149.short

Without Autopsies, Hospitals Bury Their Mistakes

http://www.propublica.org/article/without-autopsies-hospitals-bury-their-mistakes

Lecture: Elliott Fisher's "Achieving a Sustainable Healthcare System"

Given at The Commonwealth Club of California for The Lundberg Institute

http://www.commonwealthclub.org/events/archive/podcast/

elliott-s-fisher-achieving-sustainable-health-care-system-102511

Purchasing High Performance: A Note from CMS Administrator
Dr. Donald Berwick on The Partnership for Patients

Via The Commonwealth Fund

http://www.commonwealthfund.org/Newsletters/Purchasing-High-Performance/

2011/September-19-2011/Column/Partnership-for-Patients.aspx

Facing Uncertainty: Why Primary Care Physicians Must Act Now

http://careandcost.com/2011/04/22/facing-uncertainty-why-primary-care-physicians-must-act-now/

MedPage Today: Who Speaks for American Physicians?

http://www.medpagetoday.com/Columns/25741

MedPage Today: How to Fix Primary Care

http://www.medpagetoday.com/Columns/24986

Want an Ideal Clinic? Collaborate With Your Community

http://tinyurl.com/496d35c

Health Beat: Victor Fuchs: Longevity vs. the Quality of Life, and “Why What Can’t Happen, Will Happen”

http://www.healthbeatblog.com/2010/09/victor-fuchs-longevity-vs-the-quality-of-life-and-why-what-cant-happen-will-happen.html

Kenneth W. Kizer, MD, MPH: What Is a World-Class Medical Facility? (PDF)

http://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/content/exec/brac/pdf/kizer-wordlclass-ajmq-020910.pdf

HealthReform.gov Fact Sheet: The Affordable Care Act’s New Patient’s Bill of Rights

http://www.healthreform.gov/newsroom/new_patients_bill_of_rights.html