Index to Medicine and Social Justice year 3, 12/2010-11/2011

General Medical

Friday, December 24, 2010, Cardiac stents and profit-driven corruption: do anti-fraud rules address the problem?

Saturday, January 15, 2011, Risk, Primitive Reactions, and Human Health Behaviors

Tuesday, March 15, 2011, Men’s Health? Women’s Health? Valid screening opportunities or “Hallmark Holidays”?

Sunday, June 19, 2011, The real face of lack of access to health care

Wednesday, July 13, 2011, Direct-to-Consumer Advertising and the Role of Advocacy Organizations: Two Threats to Evidence Based Testing

Friday, August 12, 2011, Greed, corruption and medical procedures: ignoring or suppressing the evidence?

Saturday, October 8, 2011, Healthful Behaviors: Why do people adopt them? Or not?

Friday, September 16, 2011, Unintended pregnancy and health disparities

Wednesday, October 26, 2011, Fluoridation: Dental health for all

Friday, October 14, 2011, PSA redux: The USPSTF finally recommends NOT getting it!

Tuesday, November 8, 2011, MRIs, clinical judgement and access to health care: Where is the money best spent?

Health Policy

Saturday, December 18, 2010, ACA, ACOs, and Meaningful Competition

Wednesday, January 5, 2011, Solving Medicare costs and the budget deficit: primary care, cost-effectiveness, and universal health coverage

Friday, February 25, 2011, We are moving in the wrong direction: the health care crisis and American hubris

Sunday, February 13, 2011, Freedom abroad, health at home: experiments in preventive health care

Tuesday, May 17, 2011, Insurance company profits up and patient care down

Saturday, June 25, 2011, The cost of health care: Prevention and Indication “creep”, drugs, and the Sanders plan

Tuesday, July 19, 2011, "Reforming" Medicaid, or Cutting Medicaid: No shortage of folks to cast the first stone

Friday, July 1, 2011, Medicare: We need to expand it, not cut it!

Wednesday, August 31, 2011, Steps toward a solution: Time to put Single Payer back "on the table"

Thursday, August 18, 2011, "Health in All" policies to eliminate health disparities are a real answer

Saturday, August 6, 2011, Cook County Hospital: Health care for the poor or poor health care?

Thursday, September 22, 2011, Legislating Public Health and Medical Care

Thursday, October 20, 2011, No way to run a hospital, no way to run a healthcare system

Tuesday, November 15, 2011, Troubled hospitals, troubled health care system: Not just in Brooklyn

Tuesday, November 1, 2011, Michael Marmot, the British Medical Association, and the Social Determinants of Health

Primary Care

Wednesday, February 2, 2011, Outing the RUC: Medicare reimbursement and Primary Care

Saturday, February 5, 2011, AMA response to "Outing the RUC"

Saturday, February 19, 2011, The challenge of expanded Medicaid and the dearth of primary care physicians
Monday, May 30, 2011, Primary Care, Medical School Debt, and US Health Needs: Analysis from the Graham Center
Saturday, June 11, 2011, EMRs and Primary Care: The good, the bad, and the challenges

Sunday, October 2, 2011, Are primary care physicians fees a major contributor to the high costs of US healthcare? No.

Medical Education

Tuesday, March 22, 2011, US Medicine and Medical Education: The Good Part

Wednesday, March 9, 2011, The Education of Health Professionals and Prospects for Transformation (Guest post by Seiji Yamada, MD)

Sunday, April 17, 2011, Do resident work hours limits create better physicians?

Monday, June 6, 2011, Comments on Free Medical Schools

Sunday, June 5, 2011, Would free medical schools increase primary care?

Sunday, July 31, 2011 Training Rural Doctors: The KU Salina Program

Monday, July 25, 2011, Evaluating the Communications Skills of Potential Medical Students: Looking at the "Whole Person"

Family Medicine in the Era of Health Reform (3 part series)

Monday, May 23, 2011, Family Medicine in the Era of Health Reform - 3

Wednesday, May 11, 2011, Family Medicine in the era of health reform - 2

Thursday, May 5, 2011, Family Medicine in the era of health reform

Medical Ethics

Saturday, April 9, 2011, Conflict of interest 2: Clinical practice guidelines and Deans

Friday, April 1, 2011, Conflict of interest reporting

Thursday, July 7, 2011, Physician Oaths and Social Responsibility

Thursday, August 25, 2011, What is the ethical role for physicians in the "business" of health care?

Thursday, September 8, 2011, "The Doctor's Dilemma": Balancing needs of individual patients and responsible stewardship of health resources

Social Justice

Thursday, December 30, 2010,Immigration and the US: Happy New Year

Sunday, December 12, 2010, Tax Breaks for the "Masters of the Universe" or for the rest of us?
Friday, December 3, 2010, Matthew Freeman Memorial Lecture, Dec 6, 2010

Thursday, March 3, 2011, Fighting for freedom abroad -- and at home

Thursday, April 28, 2011, Perception and reality of economic inequality

Saturday, April 23, 2011, "Cabaret" and "Inherit the Wind": Will we again reap what is being sowed?

Monday, September 26, 2011, Shall we be callous or shall we be people? There is hope.

Friday, November 25, 2011, Veterans Day, the “Bonus Army”, and honoring veterans by actions, not words

The Tucson shootings

Thursday, January 27, 2011,The Devil Inside: Access to Mental Health Care in the United States  (Guest post by Robyn R. Liu, MD)

Friday, January 21, 2011, Tucson is worth struggling for...(Guest post by William Bemis)
Sunday, January 9, 2011, The Arizona shootings: When will we ever learn?

Links to other blogs Monday, February 28, 2011, Common Sense Family Doctor blog: Maybe PSA's time has finally come -- to an end!

Wednesday, February 9, 2011, Education in Medicine: The characteristics of future physicians

Tuesday, February 8, 2011, Non-preventive Health Screenings: Common Sense Family Doctor

Saturday, March 26, 2011, Common Sense Family Doctor: Coronary CT: nonindicated and costly screening test

Friday, April 15, 2011, Disincentives to rural practice: from "Training Family Doctors" blog

Other

 Tuesday, June 14, 2011, Barbara Starfield

Wednesday, July 6, 2011, New blog and post