Healthcare Reform: Too Big To Fail

Eric Dishman Rumors of the demise of healthcare reform have been greatly exaggerated. After Scott Brown’s upset victory for the Massachusetts Senate seat, the news media and blogosphere are abuzz. Ah, folks, we have ourselves an official media frenzy! Let the hyperbole begin: “The world has changed,” “Everything is different […]

“Advanced Professionalism”: A View Standing On Others’ Shoulders

by Mike Magee MD As I mentioned last week, I’ve been in the early stages of a purposefully disruptive project titled “Advanced Professionalism”, which involves reviewing a decade of Medical Education literature on the topic with an eye toward challenging traditional thinking. All sources this week pointed to the seminal work of Dr. Thomas S. […]

Seventh Generation Supports Toxic Chemical Reform Act

Meredith Magee Donnelly Seventh Generation, creator of non-toxic household products, is now demanding Congress to support the Toxic Chemical Reform Act that would create a stronger law regarding chemicals used in products. According to the Seventh Generation website “the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has required safety on only 200 of the more than 80,000 chemicals […]

A Foundation For The House Of Medicine

Paul S. Auerbach MD When you build a house, you begin with the foundation. The same holds true for the U.S. health care system. The President and Congress are scrambling to put up a reform structure that would have a better chance to succeed if the cinderblocks and joists were in place. No health care […]

Saving Health Care, Saving America

GUEST CORRESPONDENTS Brian Klepper, David C. Kibbe, Robert Laszewski, and Alain Enthoven So far, Congress’ response to the health care crisis has been alarmingly disappointing in three ways. First, by willingly accepting enormous sums from health care special interests, our representatives have obligated themselves to their benefactors’ interests rather than to those of the American […]

Is it Time to Regulate Infertility Clinics?

The curious case of Nadya Suleman If you’ve turned on the TV in the past few weeks, you couldn’t miss one of two sets of images. The first is our new president attempting to weave his way through a long list of complex issues to stir the country down a different financial path. The second […]

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