2010 Health Reform Implementation Guidelines

Health Care Reform Compliance Guidelines This article addresses the implementation schedule for the health care reforms that apply to privat...

Commercial Threats to Social Networking Among Patients

Fourteen months ago I wrote a post about PatientsLikeMe.com , a startup social networking site, that enabled patients with disorders like A...

Livestrong at the YWCA - Exercise and Thrive

If you or a loved one is recovering from cancer you already know that you need different kinds of support in your life than possibly bef...

Eligibility Guidelines and Requirements

We are often asked how we are able to provide such wonderful services to our community members at low or no cost.  The other part of the q...

Case Closed on the Conservative Attack on the Health Insurance Mandate

I've written several posts on the right wing attack on the requirement that individuals obtain health insurance or pay a modest penalty,...

LBT Rainbow Health Fair - Free Peer Health Services & Mammograms

Saturday, June 26, 2010 10 am - 3 pm Gilda's Club 1400 Broadway Seattle, WA 98122 Join us for peer complimentary health services, like ...

Suicide and the Internet

On April 23, G. Paul Beaumaster, Prosecuting Attorney in Rice County Minnesota, filed a complaint against William Francis Melchert-Dinkel, f...

Purpose in Life, Alzheimer Disease, and Medical Ethics

This week I came upon a fascinating article in the March issue of the Archives of General Psychiatry: "Effect of a Purpose in Life on ...

Health Care as a Right - the Showdown Approaches

All developed countries except the U.S. recognize a right to health care. Now twenty states, led by Florida's Attorney General, have bro...

Primary Care and "Small e" Ethics

In teaching ethics I like to distinguish between "large E" and "small e" ethics. "Large E" situations involve ...

Cadaver Memorial Ceremonies

It's a long time since I studied anatomy in medical school. And my own areas of teaching - ethics, psychiatry and primary care - are a l...

Recission Wasn't Always a Moral Crime

An editorial in today's New York Times celebrated the end of the insurance practice of "recission" - voiding of the insurance...