Index to Medicine and Social Justice: Year 4, 12/2011-11/2012

The Withers Lecture : Justice, Social Justice, Health and Health Care

5/19/12: Part I

5/25/12: Part II

5/29/12: Part III

6/4/12: Part IV

Health Reform/ACA

11/24/12: Health reform, ACA, and Primary Care: Is there still a conundrum?

11/17/12: ACA after the election: Is it is the "fiscal cliff" or the social cliff that matters to people?

9/2/12: Financial Incentives, maybe; corporate profit, no!

7/19/12: The Oregon Lottery: Far from enough, but at least they are doing something

3/4/12: ACA benefit programs: will state to state variation be good or bad?

1/21/12: One thing to NOT worry about: paying for health care -- in France

1/14/12: It’s definitely not about the bike – but is it even about ACOs?

12/2/11: Medicare: A lifeline, not a Ponzi scheme

Health Research and Evidence

9/9/12: Research basic and applied: we need them both

7/4/12: The "Annual Physical": Screening, equity, and evidence

6/21/12: Rationing, Waste, and Useless Interventions

4/22/12: Patient-centered research: answering the questions that matter to people

4/14/12: "Eggs Benedict" and "Choosing Wisely": often the best thing to do is nothing

2/12/12: The high cost of drugs: treating cancer and cholesterol while building profit

1/28/12: "Abandoning ship": is debunking ineffective screening and therapy removing hope or just removing risk?

12/21/11: Avastin®, Plan B®, and Magical Thinking

The Health System and Social Justice

10/27/12: Medicare, falls, families, and risk: "Qualifying" to be in a safe place

10/20/12: Simple treatments: bad doctors or a bad health system?

8/10/12: Medical errors: to err may be human, but we need systems to decrease them

7/26/12: Variations in the cost of medical care: Sense and sensibility

6/28/12: Retail clinics: power to the patient

5/12/12: Specialty Hospitalists: what is best for the patient?

5/5/12: Value-based purchasing: whose values?

2/26/12: Latinos and health care in Kansas City, Kansas

2/18/12: Camden and you: the cost of health care to communities

1/8/12: Cui bono? Is healthcare financing about funding providers or caring for patients?

12/18/12: To improve health the US must spend more on social services

Medical Education

6/16/12: Beyond Flexner: Taking the Social Mission of Medical Schools to the next level

3/24/12: Beyond Flexner Conference on the Social Mission in Medical Education

Primary Care

11/24/12: Health reform, ACA, and Primary Care: Is there still a conundrum?

9/29/12: Primary care, specialty care: what about health?

9/23.12: Social determinants key to the future of Primary Care

8/18/12: The Primary Care Conundrum

8/2/12: Doctor shortage or shortage of the right doctors?

12/10/11: GME funding must be targeted to Primary Care

Providers, values, and health

11/3/12: Health is not a commodity: Let us get the language right

10/13/12: Physician advocacy: for patients and for social change

10/6/12: Abortion and women's health: who truly has a conscience?

8/24/12: Quality and price for everyone: Bigger may be better in some ways, but not all

7/12/12: Multimorbity, primary care, social determinants, and universal insurance: where they all come together

6/10/12: Improving health in poor countries -- and reducing it in the rich

4/7/12: How people die, and how should we?

3/29/12: Reproductive Rights -- and wrongs

3/11/12: Alabama, “illegals”, and hate: We must take back the narrative

2/3/12: Komen and Planned Parenthood: The politics of abortion meet the politics of breast cancer

Other

11/10/12: "The Public Health and Social Justice Reader"

3/17/12: The 2012 Matthew Freeman Social Justice Awards