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Index 2008: Letters to the Editor

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January - February - March - April - May - 2007 index

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May 19

• Physicians should be more realistic on national health insurance -- they have already experienced Medicare
• In law-abiding hands, a gun is no more sinister than a fire extinguisher

May 12

• 5 things needed to make EMRs practical

May 5

• Number doesn't tell whole story of how psychiatrists view health plans
• It's up to the woman if a pregnancy creates 1 patient or 2
• EMRs have 2 strikes against them

April 28

• There is a strong case to be made for postpartum depression screening
• For a couple facing the match, a couple of services spells trouble

April 21

• To get more empathy, focus more on character of med school applicants
• Insurers misuse wellness programs
• Hippocratic oath does not apply to issue of doctors pitching products

April 14

• ADA: There can be even more collaboration between dentists and physicians
• In medicine, emphasis should be on compassion and less so on empathy

April 7

• Amid debate on prostate cancer care, one physician relates his experience

March 24/31

• Predominance of hospitalists has quality assurance implications
• Motherhood is daunting but should not be recast as a disease

March 17

• Address patient safety with pay levels that cover time needed for good care
• There were airport clinics in the '70s

March 10

• Insurers are using an overly broad definition of "preexisting condition"
• Adults forgo vaccinations because of poor coverage, limited reimbursement

March 3

• How high is the stack of rules and regulations that apply to physicians?
• Physician's duty to unborn patient precludes an abortion referral

Feb. 25

• Less work for ethics committees as consensus replaced controversies
• Financial transparency is essential to creating best possible health system
• Turnabout is fair play when medicine meets anonymous online venting

Feb. 18

• Consumer-directed health care just the latest risk-shifting scheme
• Set health costs apart by use of dedicated credit card

Feb. 11

• It's understandable that a practice would drop a litigious patient
• Lawmakers should read doctor's letter on being forced from practice

Feb. 4

• If FSMB wants better care, it should raise doctor morale and lower hassles

Jan. 28

• Medicine is not well served when it is blurred with religion
• Physicians doing what's right need shield from money-minded litigation

Jan. 21

• Reliance on primary care may explain early cancer diagnosis in rural areas

Jan. 14

• Balance billing will come too late for this doctor but may save others

Jan. 7

• "Primary care physicians do not have a corner on the market of altruism"

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