Tuesday, December 29, 2009

Quotes for the New Year

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. The New Year is a common time to rethink, make resolutions, and in various ways commit to leading a better life. We can do this as individ...
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Wednesday, December 23, 2009

Health Reform: The good, the bad, and the bigoted

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. The New York Times , in a December 22, 2009 editorial, calls the Senate bill “well worth passing” ( A Bill Well Worth Passing ), and says ...
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Friday, December 18, 2009

The trauma of joblessness: who is evil?

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. On November 8, 2009, the New York Times began its 98th “Neediest Cases” campaign, to raise funds for charities that help New Yorkers who ...
Monday, December 14, 2009

Tommy Douglas and the Canadian Health System

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Five years ago, on November 29, 2004, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) program "The Greatest Canadian" revealed the wi...
Thursday, December 10, 2009

Free clinics should open our eyes to the real problems

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. On December 9 and 10, 2009, a massive “C.A.R.E.” clinic, sponsored by the National Association of Free Health Clinics occurred in Bartle H...
Sunday, December 6, 2009

Health Care Needs Should Guide Health Reform

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. As the debate over health care reform proceeds in the Senate, and in the nation, it is important to take stock of the key assumptions of t...
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Wednesday, December 2, 2009

Food stamp use increases: who should the government be working for?

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. The New York Times article “ Food stamp use soars across US, and stigma fades ” by Jason DeParle and Robert Gebeloff (November 29, 2009) ...
Saturday, November 28, 2009

Medicine and Social Justice – the First Year: An Index

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. Thanksgiving weekend – today, November 28, specifically – marks the first anniversary of the Medicine and Social Justice blog. I thought I...
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Wednesday, November 25, 2009

Breast Cancer Screening and Evidence-based Medicine

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. In case you’ve been in a coma for a while, the US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF), a federally-funded-but-independent group of sci...
Sunday, November 22, 2009

Health Workers and Our Wars

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. This guest column is by Seiji Yamada, MD, a family physician, Associate Professor of Complementary and Alternative Medicine at the Univers...
Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Primary Care’s Image: A Problem?

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. Pauline Chen, a transplant surgeon and respected author of “ Final Exam: A surgeon’s reflections on mortality” (Vintage Books) also write...
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