The latest Health Wonk Review is up at David Harlow’s HealthBlawg. David employs metaphors galore: death, taxes, baseball, and many more.

There’s a new animal in the barnyard — pigs that fly. Rich Elmore of Healthcare Technology News ably summarizes the pundits’ perspectives on health reform in the latest version of the Health Wonk Review.

Check out the latest Health Wonk Review penned by Dr. Jaan Sidorov over at the Disease Management Care blog. I commend Dr. Sidorov for his selection of a new personal photo on his blog — very handsome, and certainly a better presentation than this earlier photo from his youth.

Tinker Ready hosts the Halloween edition of Health Wonk Review at Boston Health News.

Read about the “the undead public option” or as Jon Stewart said, “It’s alive!”

Rich Elmore plays tribute to Senator Kennedy in the latest edition of the Health Wonk Review.  Read wonker perspectives on health care reform.

David Williams writes the latest Health Wonk Review…read about Health Reform, Get Fatty, Brain Spasm, and Questionable Practices.

While Congress is in recess and we all try to beat the heat, check out the latest edition of the Health Wonk Review.

Be sure to savor every word of Dr. Jaan Sidorov’s masterful witticisms!

Dr. Jaan Sidorov conclusively demonstrates his love for showmanship and rock by performing the latest Health Wonk Review at the Disease Management Care Blog.

This unretouched file photo shows Dr. S in his more serious and younger days.

The latest Health Wonk Review is at The Health Care Blog.  Brian Klepper ably hosts.

The story you are about to read is true. The names have been changed to protect the innocent.

This is the city: Los Angeles, California. I work here. I carry a badge blog. My name’s Friday.

Click here (short) or here (long) for Dragnet theme music.

A crime of disorderly conduct has been committed. The U.S. health care system is the prime suspect. My partner Gannon and I will investigate. (more…)

The Election Is Over Edition edition of the Health Wonk Review is now posted at Colorado Health Insurance Insider. 

Thanks Louise!

Jason Shafrin of Healthcare Economist provides “700 billion reasons to read the Health Wonk Review ”.

Read about how the bail out might affect health care from the POV of:

• Wall Street
• Health Insurers
• Healthcare Reformers
• Doctors
• The Uninsured
• Kids

Dr. Jaan Sidorov serves up a cornucopia of blogging delicacies in the latest edition of the Health Wonk Review at Disease Management Care Blog. Sample the fare!

….is posted at the Health Affairs blog. Jane Hiebert-White does a great job with a focus on current public policy issues.

 (Apologies to any chimps offended by the comparison).

Grand Rounds — a weekly medical blog carnival — is now posted at the Happy Hospitalist.  Dr. Happy brings home the bacon!

The latest edition of the Health Wonk Review has been posted at InsureBlog…it’s straightforward, concise, no schtick.  Thanks to Hank Stern!

Daniel Goldberg of the Medical Humanities Blog has posted the latest edition of the Health Wonk Review. Daniel puts a unique slant on his writing:

As I see it, the key role for a medical humanist – if they wish to be consistent with an ethos of medieval and Renaissance humanists – is to focus on the translation of theory into practice. 

…and he throws in some humor to boot.  Great reading!

Our colleague Dr. Aniruddha Malpani, MD has posted a diverse and enlightening latest version of the Medicine 2.0 Blog Carnival. 

Dr. M summarizes 4 major influences which will help patients to regain control over their healthcare:

1. Patients will keep their own medical records using a PHR ( Personal Health Record)

2. Information Therapy can be prescribed to them, tailored to their needs, based on their medical problems captured in the PHR

3. Web 2.0 technologies will allow them to form social communities to help and support each other

4. We can deliver this information to them 24/7 through their mobile, wherever they may be, whenever they need it!

I’m amazed how quickly creative and convergent thinking is crossing international boundaries.

The ever-gracious and ever-eloquent Brian Klepper has written up the latest rendition of the Health Wonk Review.  Check it out here on The Health Care Blog.

…and check out Brian’s own website here.

Joe Paduda has posted the latest edition of the Health Wonk Review at his blogsite, Managed Care Matters. 

Joe is one of the founders of the HWR, so a big THANK YOU goes out to our  “Fearless Leader”.

The latest edition of the Health Wonk Review is up at Merrill Goozner’s blog, GoozNews. Merrill, who has worked as an investigative reporter and freelance journalist, brings a fresh, common-sense perspective to his writing.  Check it out.

Welcome!

Since this is my first time hosting the Health Wonk Review, I really didn’t know what to expect.  I have to say that I’ve learned a lot while poring over the insight and wisdom of my fellow bloggers. Fortunately, this week’s entries fell into neat categories:

• In-Store Clinics
• Physicians
• Problems — U.S. & World Health Systems
• Solutions — U.S. & World Health Systems
• Cats, Dogs and Kangaroos

Just in case that last category, doesn’t look too familiar, let’s revisit the whole point of the Health Wonk Review:

Health Wonk Review is a biweekly compendium of the best of the health policy blogs. More than two dozen health policy, infrastructure, insurance, technology, and managed care bloggers participate…

There were a few entries that didn’t “quite” meet this definition, and I’ve included some of the best in the last category.

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Read the best recent efforts of health care bloggers!  The latest edition of the Health Wonk Review is posted at Jason Shifrin’s Healthcare Economist blog.  Thanks, Jason.

Richard Eskow is hosting the latest edition of the Health Wonk Review at his blog, The Sentinel Effect.

Enjoy reading the recent best writings of health care bloggers. Thanks, Richard.

Thank you to Jane Hiebert-White, who hosts the latest edition of the Health Wonk Review at the Health Affairs Blog.  Health Wonk Review is a bi-weekly round-up of the best in health care policy blogging commentary. This edition is entitled “Health Wonk Review And Health Reform 2.0”.

Jane’s tribute to Paul Hiebert really touched me:

For myself, my hope is to stay just a fraction as sharp as my father-in-law, Paul Hiebert, whose memorial service I attended yesterday. In his last 2 months he wrote 2 books on anthropology, graded papers, lectured by phone, wrote a commencement address, and more, all while fighting cancer. His sharp brain advice to his students also holds for wonky bloggers–”just keep writing.”

This is the kind of life Jim Fries was thinking of when he wrote about “maximum life potential” and compression of morbidity. What a great role model!