Between the Scylla and Charybdis: physicians and the clash of liability standards and cost cutting goals within accountable care organizations.

Migration policies for a Romania within the European Union: Navigating between Scylla and Charybdis by Martin Baldwin-Edwards Migration policies for a Romania within the European Union: Navigating between Scylla and Charybdis

The hypoxia-induced paralogs Scylla and Charybdis inhibit growth by down-regulating S6K activity upstream of TSC in Drosophila.

Diverse extrinsic and intrinsic cues must be integrated within a developing organism to ensure appropriate growth at the cellular and organismal level. In Drosophila, the insulin receptor/TOR/S6K signaling network plays a fundamental role in the control of metabolism and cell growth. Here we show that scylla and charybdis, two homologous genes identified as growth suppressors in an EP (enhancer...

ACOEM POSITION STATEMENT Optimizing Health Care Delivery by Integrating Workplaces, Homes, and Communities How Occupational and Environmental Medicine Can Serve as a Vital Connecting Link Between Accountable Care Organizations and the Patient-Centered Medical Home

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY In recent years, the health care reform discussion in the United States has focused increasingly on the dual goals of cost-effective delivery and better patient outcomes. A number of new conceptual models for health care have been advanced to achieve these goals, including two that are well along in terms of practical development and implementation—the patient-centered medical...

Principles of Criminal Responsibility of Physicians in Unintentional Crimes in Iran and England

Physicians all over the world are responsible for the care, recovery and treatment of patients, but sometimes as a result of inadequate care or negligence of Physicians, there is a great deal of damage to patients, which in addition to the legal aspect of the case that results in substantial damages, can result in criminal or police liability of physicians. In principle, criminal law does not i...

The looming threat of liability for accountable care organizations and what to do about it.

The promotion of accountable care organizations (ACOs), a newhealth care delivery and paymentmodel designed to curb rising medical costs while improving quality, is oneof themost important elementsof theAffordable Care Act. The ACOmodel is based on sharedrisk contracts, in which ACOs agree to share the financial risk of health care overspending with third-party payers. Although they originate i...