Zeke Emanuel’s excellent opinion piece in today’s NYT is here. He’s bumping up against some powerful special interests, but I agree with him in this case. The point is that the scan is not really diagnostic in any “for sure” sense and more to the point, there’s no cure right now for Alzheimer’s.
Category: Ezekiel Emanuel
K-12 performance: more testing
From my college classmate Zeke Emanuel in The New Republic, here. Money quote:
Done properly, testing is not inert. Rather, it can be much more like the physical phenomena underlying the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle. In the act of measuring students, you can actually affect how much knowledge they absorb and how well they retain it.
Zeke is raising a really important point. Learning outcomes are improved by the action of taking a test and getting the feedback of a grade. And increasing the frequency of testing actually improves those outcomes.
Health Reform Will Continue…
No matter how the Supreme Court rules on Obamacare…the opinion of fellow Amherst College classmate Ezekiel Emanuel here.
Sure Zeke, but as you point out, the key problem is the uninsured population: not only do they represent a public health disaster, as importantly they represent a huge economic drag on the US economy.
Discoverers and Discoveries 