Serving God in our Patients

In 2009 I had the privilege of spending two days at the Swami Vivekananda Hospital in Saragur, India. (See here for a post about my visit.)...

NW LGBT Senior Care Providers Network Meeting - Friday March 25th

Vincent Lachina from Seattle Multi-Faith Works will speak this Friday at the monthly meeting of the NW LGBT Senior Care Providers Networ...

Mark Blumenthal reviews current polling on health care reform, now roughly a year after the landmark legislation passed.

Hospital Quality-Checks & Balances

Discerning Hospital Quality The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services(CMS) now requires health quality measures for specific clinical se...

Insurance Executive Compensation and Medical Ethics

The uproar in Massachusetts about the golden parachute given to the former Blue Cross Blue Shield CEO that I posted about two weeks ago ref...

Old Lesbians Organizing for Change (OLOC) announces July conference

OLOC Presents:  A Regional Gathering of Old Lesbians July 28-31, 2011 in Tacoma, WA The theme is Community • Visibility • Action. Keynote Sp...

Doctor's Notes, Political Beliefs, and Medical Ethics

On February 19, during the protests against Governor Scott Walker's union-busting proposal, a video appeared showing physicians offerin...

Canadian blogger Oleh Iwanyshyn takes a critical look at polling during the U.S. health care reform debate.

Jawboning Health Care Costs in Massachusetts

For the moment, Massachusetts is the jawboning center of the U.S. health system. We in the U.S. are can-do activists. If there's a probl...

Reassurance

What kind of care do women in college need? They need acute care for viral infections, skin problems, and minor sports-related injuries. The...

Pumping out Prescriptions

A story on the front page of today's New York Times caught my eye - "Talk Doesn't Pay, So Psychiatry Turns Instead to Drug The...

Paying Health Care Executives and Board Members

Unions, employers, legislators, and the public erupted with anger at the announcement that Cleve Killingsworth, the former CEO and Presiden...