Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Obama and the Seder: Freedom and Multiculturalism

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. The New York Times on March 28, 2010 had a front-page article on the Seder planned at the White House for this year, apparently the second...
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Saturday, March 27, 2010

Comparative effectiveness research

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. I’m a doctor, so maybe I have a different take on this than other people, but somehow I don’t think so. I would imagine most folks would w...
Sunday, March 21, 2010

Doctors, morality and behavior: where is the moral compass?

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. In their New York Times article on March 1, 2010, about “Doctors without Morals ”, Leonard S. Rubenstein and Stephen N. Xenakis contrast t...
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Wednesday, March 17, 2010

The Sharp End of Ideology

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. This powerful piece was written by Robert Ferrer, MD, MPH, who has previously written guest blogs. It is too bad that the pundits and pol...
Saturday, March 13, 2010

Who owns US policy: let’s not forget who the bad guys are

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. The New York Times , March 7, 2010, ( US enriches companies defying its policy on Iran , by Jo Becker and Ron Nixon) reveals that the US ...
Monday, March 8, 2010

Why we need health reform

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Health Strong (healthstrong.org) has posted a guest essay by me titled "Why we need health reform" http://healthstrong.org/2010/03...
Friday, March 5, 2010

Top Ten Reasons for Future Subspecialist Physicians To Be Concerned

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. This guest piece, by Robert Bowman, MD, of the AT Still School of Osteopathic Medicine in Mesa, AZ, can be considered to be a sequel to hi...
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Saturday, February 27, 2010

Democrats have a bad plan; Republicans have no plan

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. Sen. Lamar Alexander of Tennessee, chosen to be the Republican “point man” at President Obama’s health care summit presumably because he d...
Thursday, February 18, 2010

Poverty, Primary Care and the Cost of Medical Care

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. On January 27, 2010 ( Health is more than Medical Care ) I discussed how the concept in the title of that piece is true. A society that do...
Monday, February 15, 2010

Correction to the Meyers, et al paper on smoking bans

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The paper by Meyers, et. al., cited in the February 6, 2010 blog, had a correction issued in the Journal of the American College of Cardiolo...
Saturday, February 13, 2010

Insurance company greed: To know them is to not trust them

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. Anthem Blue Cross, a subsidiary of WellPoint of Indianapolis, has taken a lot of criticism for its proposed rate increases on its 800,000 ...
Saturday, February 6, 2010

The Public’s Health: Smoking and Salt

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. People pretty much know that smoking is bad for you. You, the smoker, and you, the person exposed to secondhand smoke. Smoking accounts fo...
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Monday, February 1, 2010

Haiti and Health Reform: We need real leadership

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. There is a lot bad in the world, and compared to people in many places, people in the US are doing OK. The most obvious and well-covered v...
Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Health is more than Medical Care

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. Bob Herbert’s column in the New York Times, January 23, 2010, “ They still don’t get it ”, is one of many recent pieces that articulately ...
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Thursday, January 21, 2010

Harvard Medical School limits outside income: a good start

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. Partners Health Care, the physicians group comprising the clinical faculty of the Harvard Medical School at Massachusetts General Hospital...