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A long time ago when I was about to apply to medical school and struggling with college courses in organic chemistry and calculus and the like, a friend…
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A young friend and keen analyst of social change made the observation that it seems that physicians, when it comes to the contemporary state of our…
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Writing in the Journal of the American Medical Association at the beginning of July, a cardiologist and Professor of Medicine at the University of…
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Recently one of my patients, someone in a very frail state, insisted upon discharge the next day, over my objections. The patient's spouse was facing…
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It is common for people to assume that President Obama's Affordable Care Act will lead to universal coverage, after all that was its stated aim.Coverage…
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I practice hospital medicine.Recently the nurses at our hospital voted to give me an award. They told me about it, discreetly, one by one, ahead of the…
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This week the prestigious journal Health Affairs published a new study that shows that "immigrants, particularly noncitizen immigrants, heavily subsidize…
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William Faulkner, the great American writer who was born in New Albany, Mississippi, wrote screenplays to support his family, although he didn't really…
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In two recent essays Dr. Arthur Kleinman, the eminent Harvard anthropologist and psychiatrist, writes in the world's leading medical journals about…
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Last week I had the privilege to visit West Virginia. I've been there before. My first impressions, made years ago, returned. If our everyday…