![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() One of the physicians he profiles, Jeff Brenner, is a family practitioner working in Camden, N.J. Gawande's piece in the current issue of the New Yorker about those who focus on patients with the highest medical costs is called "The Hot Spotters." Surgeon and journalist Atul Gawande says there are hopeful signs that costs can be contained - not by cutting back, but by providing more intensive services to chronically ill patients who incur huge costs with long stays in hospital rooms and intensive care units. One of the criticisms of the health care reform bill enacted last year is that it expanded coverage without doing enough to control rising health care costs. His books include Better and Complications. Atul Gawande is a staff member of Brigham and Women's Hospital and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. ![]()
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