By Evan Falchuk

In case you missed it over the long weekend:

Dr. Robert Centor continues to share his terrific insights on how medical quality being wrecked by how insurers deal with primary care.

I wrote about how badly the federal government’s good work on getting patients engaged in their care is doomed without a social media strategy.

At the New York Times’ Economix blog, David Leonhardt writes again about his idea of what he calls a “prostate cancer test” for whether health care reform is going to work.  I commented that he is mistaken.  The misguided focus on money over medicine continues to plague health care reform discussions.

Lots of twitter buzz over the weekend on my post Doctors: Beware of Politics.  Check out the insightful comments.

Dr. David Cutler, writing in the New England Journal of Medicine wonders – will the cost curve bend, even without reform? Related thoughts here.

The Boston Globe reported on how Massachusetts’ new payment reform plan may place limits on where patients can seek medical treatment.  In a state dominated by major teaching hospitals, this will an interesting battle to watch unfold.

Also, research reported on in the American Scientist suggests that multitasking tends to degrade your cognitive abilities.  The implication is that gorging on information is the evolutionary equivalent of gorging on food.  A behavior that’s adaptive in a world of scarcity, maybe not so much in a world of abundance.