Article published in the daily “La Nueva España” (Oviedo), June 2, 2016 Seniority or merits? These days we are witnessing in Asturias an acute controversy following the incorporation into the Asturias Central Hospital, the largest hospital in the region, of 70 doctors based only on seniority criteria. The reason for the controversy is that service chiefs […]
Review the document “Health White Paper”, CEOE, May 24, 2016 Raid on the health sector by the CEOE A document called “Health White Paper” published by the CEOE has recently come to light. We must congratulate this institution and its main promoter, Carlos González Bosch, for this foray into the health field. Although […]
Report on pharmaceutical policy 2015, published by diariofarma. Some notable cuts in public health spending The economic crisis has hit the public health sector whose spending has gone down from 70,579 million euros in 2009 to 61,710 million in 2013, bringing down GDP from 6.5% to 5.9%. This significant decrease in public health […]
New Medical Economics magazine has presented me with an interesting challenge, which I would like to thank them for most sincerely. To summarize the contents of my recent book “Doctor or robots? What lies ahead in medicine ” in about 800 words. [1]. Given that the book has nine chapters and more than […]
On October 2015, with a foreword by Jordi Sevilla and an epilogue by the long-awaited Alfonso Castro Beiras, I published (Editorial Rasche, 2015) a book entitled “Doctors or robots? The medicine that comes”, which tries to analyze the evolution of medicine from a totally artisanal sector to an industrialized one, which does not mean, […]
Interview published in La Razón, November, 2014 “The cuts’ victims have been the professionals and the pharmaceutical industry” He makes up the founder group of VPR, that stands up for Julián García Vargas, former Spanish Minister of Health; Xavier Pomés, former Minister of Health of Catalonia; and Ignacio Riesgo, three people with long and […]
PDF of the article: 2-Hospital-Networks-Agree-to-Merge-Raising-Specter-of-Costlier-Care-NYTimes.com_ The New York Times of July 16, 2013 reports what has been the latest and most notorious hospital merger in the United States, nothing less than that of two New York City giants: Mount Sinai Medical Center and Continuum Health Partners. The new company will have 3,300 beds on […]
PDF of the article: Victro-Fuchs-healthcare-spending Victor Fuchs, probably the most prestigious living health economist in the world, writes an interesting article on the evolution of health spending in the United States in the last 60 years (N Eng J Med 2013; 368: 107-109) A quick summary of it: The difficulty of forecasting health […]
This book was published by the Fondo de Investigaciones Sanitarias. This report is only an approximation to an emergency diagnosis on the situation of Spanish hospitals, particularly public ones. For its preparation, the document “The Spanish Hospitals: Problems and Proposals” delivered by the author in December 1990 to the “Commission for the […]
