Tuesday, April 22, 2014

Index to Medicine and Social Justice Blog, Year 5, Dec 2012-Nov 2013

Primary Care

Dec 23, 2012: Does AAMC have an answer for the primary care shortage? No.

Feb 8, 2013: Creating more family doctors: should we shorten medical school? How?

Mar 19, 2013: Can you be "too strong" for family medicine?

Jun 2, 2013: Primary Care Contributes More than Money....

Oct 13, 2013: The role of Primary Care in improving health: In the US and around the world

Oct 26, 2013: Why do students not choose primary care?

 

Health Reform

Feb 2, 2013: Kansas, Medicaid expansion, and human rights

Apr 21, 2013: Payments for surgical complications: With a scalpel or a meat ax?

May 5, 2013: Medicaid Expansion: Do we care for people or not?

May 26, 2013: Medicaid expansion will leave out many of the poorest: What is wrong with this picture?

Jun 16, 2013: "Call the Midwife": If Britain could afford to create a National Health Service after WWII, we can now!

Jul 21, 2013: Changes in the RUC: None.. How come we let a bunch of self-interested doctors decide what they get paid?

Aug 4, 2013: Why poor people choose ERs: we need a system designed to meet everyone’s needs

Sep 29, 2013: What can we really expect from ObamaCare? A lot, actually.

Nov 17, 2013: Dead Man Walking: People still die from lack of health insurance

 

Health Research and Evidence

Dec 8, 2013: More on mammography: just because you don't like the results doesn't make research junk science

Jan 12, 2013: Mental Illness and Guns: A public health perspective

Jan 19, 2013: Weight and class: who is obese and why should we care?

Jan 26, 2013: The flu is a virus!

Apr 7, 2013: Research on disparities/inequities, in practices and communities needs much greater funding

Apr 14, 2013: Premature babies and informed consent: we need to do it right

Sep 7, 2013: President Bush's stent: inappropriate screening and care for the rich, nothing for the poor

 

Medical Education

Feb 8, 2013: Creating more family doctors: should we shorten medical school? How?

Mar 19, 2013: Can you be "too strong" for family medicine?

Jul 7, 2013: Why don't graduate medical education programs produce the doctors America needs?

Oct 26, 2013: Why do students not choose primary care?

Nov 3, 2013: Should Medical School last 3 years? If so, which 3?


The Health System and Social Justice

May 19, 2013: Keeping immigrants and all of us healthy is a social task

Jun 16, 2013: "Call the Midwife": If Britain could afford to create a National Health Service after WWII, we can now!

Jun 22, 2013: Moving to Recovery By Design (guesy post by Robert Bowman, MD)

Jan 5, 2013: When is the doctor not needed? And who should take their place?

Feb 16, 2013: Creating team based care: are non-physician providers more effectively used in primary or subspecialty care?

Feb 23, 2013: Corruption and Scandal in the NHS: What happens when you introduce private incentives to public services

Mar 2, 2013: Squeezing the needy: a truly flawed financing system for healthcare

Jul 14, 2013: The State of US Health: improved over 20 years, but not nearly enough

Jul 28, 2013: The high cost of US health care: it's not the colonoscopies, it's the profit

Aug 4, 2013: Why poor people choose ERs: we need a system designed to meet everyone’s needs

Aug 10, 2013: Insufficient outrage: is health care about helping people or enriching providers?

Aug 17, 2013: Status Syndrome: an important determinant of health (guest post by Linda French, MD)

Sep 7, 2013: President Bush's stent: inappropriate screening and care for the rich, nothing for the poor

Oct 6, 2013: Critical access hospitals: Worth subsidizing to help save rural America

Nov 10, 2013: Does quality of care vary by insurance status? Even Medicare? Is that OK?

Nov 17, 2013: Dead Man Walking: People still die from lack of health insurance

Nov 23, 2013: Outliers, Hotspotting, and the Social Determinants of Health


Providers, Values, and Health

Aug 10, 2013: Insufficient outrage: is health care about helping people or enriching providers?

Aug 25, 2013: Physicians' role in controlling health costs: do no financial harm

Sep 1, 2013: Rand Paul on health policy: small brain and no heart

Sep 15, 2013: Competition vs. Coordination in health care: remember the patient!

Sep 22, 2013: Controlling the cost of health care by doing the right thing

Oct 20, 2013: The cost of medical care: bundling tests and blaming the victim

Nov 10, 2013: Does quality of care vary by insurance status? Even Medicare? Is that OK?

 

Other

Apr 26, 2013: Matthew Freeman Lecture and Awards, 2013





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