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A report on January 7th in The New York Times announces what is supposed to be good news.  US healthcare spending only rose moderately, or “modestly” as The Times puts […]

Today it’s hard to find a health care professional who doesn’t want to “put the patient first,” practice “patient centered care,” or make the patient “part, or even the center, […]

Anyone interested in transparency in healthcare should check out the Sugar Bowl website under chairlift safety program, under inspiration.  So right on the website of this famous ski area in […]

This is an excellent story my husband just wrote about the defeat of a major public health initiative to fight obesity.   From Beyond Chron and The Huffington Post, Nov. […]

The New York Times Well blog just posted an article on physicians who refuse to take any insurance payments. The article is entitled When Doctors Stop Taking Insurance So you […]

Please look at my facebook page.  I took a series of photos yesterday in the large, 1000 bed hospital in Utrecht, the Netherlands.  Many Americans think that national health care […]

Let Them Eat Cheesecake By Suzanne Gordon The other day, at the suggestion of Boston surgeon and New Yorker writer Atul Gawande, my husband and I made a lunchtime visit […]

I just published a review of Alison Whittaker’s new play Vital Signs in Beyond Chron. You can check it out. Here is a longer version. Nurse Alison Whittaker’s Vital Signs: […]

Liberals don’t care about controlling healthcare costs.   Or so we just learned from Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, a well-known oncologist,  former presidential advisor on health care policy, now employed [...]

I have just written this article for the great blog Beyond Chron that Randy Shaw edits out in San Francisco. Here it is,http://beyondchron.org/news/index.php?itemid=9532 but check out Beyond [...]