If you want to understand the jobless recovery from the Great Recession of 2008, check out your local CVS or grocery store. I’ve been staying in Jamaica Plain, Mass for […]
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 […]
Soft Drink Wars Go National by Suzanne Gordon‚ Oct. 02‚ 2012 Beyond Chron On both coasts, and in between, the US is awash in soft drinks this election season. In […]
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 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 [...]
The patient was a 70-year-old woman who’d been struggling with two different types of cancers for at least eight years. For most of them, she’d been on dialysis, first every […]