Saturday, January 26, 2013

The flu is a virus!

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It is winter and a lot of people are sick. Around here, and around the country, there are two big kinds of sick – one is mainly gastrointe...
Saturday, January 19, 2013

Weight and class: who is obese and why should we care?

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One of the things that people are most fixated upon, in both the health arena and in society at large is weight. In popular culture, weigh...
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Saturday, January 12, 2013

Mental Illness and Guns: A public health perspective

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I have been somewhat reluctant to write about the issues surrounding the mass shootings that have become epidemic in our country. Since th...
Saturday, January 5, 2013

When is the doctor not needed? And who should take their place?

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A lengthy editorial in the New York Times, December 16, 2012, " When the doctor is not needed” , discusses how a variety of other hea...
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Tuesday, January 1, 2013

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

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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: ...
Sunday, December 23, 2012

Does AAMC have an answer for the primary care shortage? No.

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The December 5, 2012 issue of JAMA is its annual “medical education” issue, and contains a number of interesting studies and commentaries f...
Saturday, December 15, 2012

Medicare: Consumer choice or choosing your poison? How about coverage for everyone?

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It is now after December 7 th , and Medicare recipients have had their open enrollment period and made their choices for next year. Good o...
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Saturday, December 8, 2012

More on mammography: just because you don't like the results doesn't make research junk science

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A recent study published in the New England Journal of Medicine , “Effect of three decades of screening mammography on breast-cancer incid...
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