Wednesday, December 8, 2010

Medicine and Social Justice Index, Year 2

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Continuing a "tradition" I started a year ago, here is a topically-organized list of the postings on Medicine and Social Justice for its second year, December 2009-November 2010.

General Medical

Tuesday, November 23, 2010: Lung Cancer Screening: Benefits, Costs, and Opportunity Costs for the Public Health
Thursday, November 11, 2010: Hospital Readmissions: Who pays, who decides, and for whom?
Saturday, October 30, 2010: Breast cancer screening: conflicting evidence? what are the important questions for health?
Monday, August 2, 2010: Calcium, Heart Attack and Osteoporosis
Friday, July 16, 2010: Rosiglitazone and the "Holy Grail"
Tuesday, July 6, 2010: Statins and scientific integrity
Friday, April 16, 2010: VISA and colchicine: maybe the banks and Pharma really ARE in it for the money! (Guest post by Stephen Griffith, MD)
Saturday, January 16, 2010: Cancer Care and Hospital Advertising

Health and Public Health, General

Monday, November 29, 2010: Compromised public health ethics across the pond: Britain too!
Sunday, October 24, 2010: Health and income: "what's new?" or a good resource
Wednesday, October 13, 2010: "Top Doctors": Who are they -- and who are they not necessarily?
Friday, September 24, 2010: Capability: understanding why people may not adopt healthful behaviors
Saturday, September 18, 2010: Shared Medical Decision Making: Between Autonomy and Authoritarianism
Sunday, September 12, 2010: Social Determinants, Personal Responsibility, and Health System Outcomes
Tuesday, September 7, 2010: Drugs, Tobacco, Doctors and the Health of the Public
Friday, August 20, 2010: The AAFP, Coca-Cola, and Ethics: Serving the public interest?
Saturday, May 15, 2010: Public Health and Changing People's Minds
Sunday, May 9, 2010: Health Outcomes: The interaction of class and health behaviors
Saturday, March 27, 2010: Comparative effectiveness research
Sunday, March 21, 2010: Doctors, morality and behavior: where is the moral compass?
Saturday, February 6, 2010: The Public’s Health: Smoking and Salt
Wednesday, January 27, 2010: Health is more than Medical Care

Health reform, Health Policy and Workforce

Wednesday, November 17, 2010: Disparities in physician income are related to disparities in health
Friday, November 5, 2010: Training rural family doctors
Monday, October 18, 2010: Lower Costs in Grand Junction: More Primary Care, Less High Tech
Thursday, October 7, 2010: Primary Care Grants from HRSA: not enough, not wisely done
Wednesday, July 28, 2010: The political campaign and the future of health reform
Thursday, July 22, 2010: Improving quality and access still requires coverage for all
Saturday, June 26, 2010: Mirror on the Wall: Commonwealth Fund report continues to show US has poor outcomes at high cost
Thursday, May 27, 2010: Universal Coverage and Primary Care: The US needs both
Thursday, April 22, 2010; PPACA, The New Health Reform Law: How will it affect the public's health and primary care?
Sunday, April 11, 2010: Doctors and Health Reform: How should a physician's politics affect their patient care?
Wednesday, March 17, 2010: The Sharp End of Ideology (Guest post by Robert Ferrer, MD MPH)
Monday, March 8, 2010: Why we need health reform (announcement of a guest post by me on Health Strong, " http://healthstrong.org/2010/03/why-we-need-health-reform/#more-508 )
Friday, March 5, 2010: Top Ten Reasons for Future Subspecialist Physicians To Be Concerned (Guest post by Robert Bowman, MD)
Saturday, February 27, 2010: Democrats have a bad plan; Republicans have no plan
Thursday, February 18, 2010: Poverty, Primary Care and the Cost of Medical Care
Saturday, February 13, 2010: Insurance company greed: To know them is to not trust them
Monday, February 1, 2010: Haiti and Health Reform: We need real leadership
Thursday, January 21, 2010: Harvard Medical School limits outside income: a good start
Wednesday, December 23, 2009: Health Reform: The good, the bad, and the bigoted
Monday, December 14, 2009: Tommy Douglas and the Canadian Health System

Primary Care

Friday, October 1, 2010: The Challenge of Global Health and Primary Care
Wednesday, September 1, 2010: Advice for building a new primary care based health system for Armenia: How "knowing the future" can inform our actions now (Guest post by Heidi Chumley, MD)
Saturday, August 14, 2010: Primary Care, IMGs, and the Health of the People
Monday, July 12, 2010: Primary care specialty choice: student characteristics
Tuesday, June 8, 2010: Reinventing Primary Care: Themes and Challenges
Thursday, May 27, 2010: Universal Coverage and Primary Care: The US needs both
Friday, May 21, 2010: Primary Care: What takes so much time? And how are we paying for it?
Wednesday, April 28, 2010: Primary Care and Rural Areas
Thursday, April 22, 2010; PPACA, The New Health Reform Law: How will it affect the public's health and primary care?
Monday, April 5, 2010: Primary Care and the Medical Home, Today and Tomorrow
Thursday, February 18, 2010: Poverty, Primary Care and the Cost of Medical Care
Thursday, January 7, 2010: Primary Care and Residency Expansion
Thursday, December 10, 2009: Free clinics should open our eyes to the real problems
Sunday, December 6, 2009: Health Care Needs Should Guide Health Reform

International Health and Medicine

Monday, November 29, 2010: Compromised public health ethics across the pond: Britain too!
Wednesday, September 1, 2010: Advice for building a new primary care based health system for Armenia: How "knowing the future" can inform our actions now (Guest post by Heidi Chumley, MD)
Friday, October 1, 2010: The Challenge of Global Health and Primary Care
Wednesday, June 2, 2010: Who will care for the underserved? The role of off-shore medical schools
Monday, February 1, 2010: Haiti and Health Reform: We need real leadership
Monday, January 11, 2010: Health Workers and the Afghanistan-Pakistan War (Guest blog by Seiji Yamada, MD)
Monday, December 14, 2009: Tommy Douglas and the Canadian Health System

Medical Education

Thursday, August 26, 2010: Medicine, science, and humanities: what is their role in medical education?
Saturday, August 14, 2010: Primary Care, IMGs, and the Health of the People
Sunday, August 8, 2010: The White Coat Ceremony: New medical students and hope for the future
Monday, July 12, 2010: Primary care specialty choice: student characteristics
Sunday, June 20, 2010: A New Way of Ranking Medical Schools: Social Mission
Wednesday, June 2, 2010: Who will care for the underserved? The role of off-shore medical schools
Thursday, January 7, 2010: Primary Care and Residency Expansion
Thursday, December 10, 2009: Free clinics should open our eyes to the real problems

Social Justice

Thursday, July 1, 2010: Arrested at the G20: David Wachsmuth
Monday, June 14, 2010: Oil Slicks and Abortion: Who do we regulate?
Saturday, May 15, 2010: Public Health and Changing People's Minds
Sunday, May 9, 2010: Health Outcomes: The interaction of class and health behaviors
Tuesday, May 4, 2010: Big Finance & Big Oil -- Teabaggers and Racism
Wednesday, March 31, 2010: Obama and the Seder: Freedom and Multiculturalism
Wednesday, March 17, 2010: The Sharp End of Ideology (Guest post by Robert Ferrer, MD MPH)
Saturday, March 13, 2010: Who owns US policy: let’s not forget who the bad guys are
Sunday, January 3, 2010: The business of America...or is America a business?
Tuesday, December 29, 2009: Quotes for the New Year
Friday, December 18, 2009: The trauma of joblessness: who is evil?
Wednesday, December 2, 2009: Food stamp use increases: who should the government be working for?

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1 comment:

Marly said...

You have had a busy year! Love the index of your posts from the year. Does this mean we shouldn't expect any more for 2010?

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