Health Care Cost Insanity Continues

The invaluable Kaiser Family Foundation released its 2011 Employer Health Benefits report yesterday. The findings are ugly. 150 million Ame...

The Dignity of Risk

I often write posts about an article in the morning newspaper or a just published medical journal. This post is about an article written in ...

The  American Cancer Society provides Cancer Facts & Figures including Gynecologic Cancer figures as quoted from 2007.  You can find thi...

Reducing Health Care Costs By Improving Primary Health Care

How Primary Care Reduces Health Care Costs in the Long Run Now that the teeth gnashing over health care reforms has been ongoing for two yea...

The Ethics of Palliative Psychotherapy

Michael Kahn, a psychiatrist at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, has an excellent short article on "Palliative Psyc...

A supportive environment makes a difference for health care services

We always appreciate feedback from those that attend any of our health screenings or fairs.  We want to make the experience the best possibl...

Altruism in Japan - Seniors Volunteer for Nuclear Cleanup

My friend and colleague Steve Moffic , who, like me, thinks of health care in the light of ethics and the religious impulse, told me about a...

Obama on Medicare - Good Clinical Ethics/Poor Partisan Politics

I was torn by Robert Pear's report in today's New York Times that Democrats are distressed about President Obama's proposal for...

From little time to more - Listing of opportunities for you

INVOLVED!!!! Come spend time with us at WHEP . 1. Get information about a topic you are learning about or exploring. Just stop in - check wi...

Grady Hospital Dialysis Patients Have a Home - For Now

Last week I wrote about the ping pong match being played between Grady Hospital and Fresenius. Unfortunately, the ping pong balls were pati...

Stanford Medical Records Posted Online

The New York Times reported today that a spreadsheet with the names, diagnosis codes, admission and discharge dates, and billing charges fo...

Playing Ping Pong with Desperately Ill Undocumented

22 patients with kidney failure, most of them undocumented immigrants, are being ping ponged between Grady Hospital , a huge safety net faci...