Tag: Ateev Mehrotra

  • Nation & World

    Paying for health care with time

    In 2010, people in the United States spent 1.1 billion hours seeking health care for themselves or for loved ones. That time was worth $52 billion. Disadvantaged socioeconomic, racial, and ethnic groups bore a disproportionate amount of the time burden.

    3 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Self-diagnosis on Internet not always good practice

    Online symptom checkers can often be wrong in both diagnosis and triage advice, but they still may be useful alternatives to phone triage services and Internet searches.

    4 minutes