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Management Works  Posted Nov 29 2009 10:01pm When skeptics think
about 'disease management' (DM), they think about distant and
nurse-filled cubicle farms that put unsuspecting patients
through a speed dial version of education-lite. Plumbing the
depths of these telephonic knockoffs, critics have made it
abundantly clear that don't like what they see: a pseudoscience
that confounds patients and antagonizes physicians. They're fed
up with the lack of financial provider incentives, lagging
technology and ineffective leadership support. It's so bad, 'how
to' articles like this have become necessary to help address the
physicians' loss of prestige, influence over patient care and
income. Policy makers, academics and organized medicine groups
have all agreed that the outrageous vendor fees could be better
used for other stuff. Like vaccinating upper-class suburban
tots. Or paying for motorized wh