Faculty Bibliography

The escalation of health care costs in the United States has become a problem now that business and taxpayers are paying larger shares of these costs. Many believe that the only way to cope with rising costs is to institute explicit rationing of access to health care services. Proposals to ration based upon age, "sin" exclusions, physician gatekeeper incentives, patient ability to pay, and community values all have shortcomings. An alternative approach to controlling costs that emphasizes efficiency by cutting administrative and malpractice overhead costs and universally providing those medical services that have proven patient benefit is proposed. Physicians must take a more active role in the debate to ensure that patient needs are met and that expenditures are directed toward effective therapies.

Perhaps most frustrating is the fact that it is fear rather than hope that dominates Jurassic Park. For while there are reasons for concern about where we are headed with genetic engineering and gene therapy, there are more reasons for excitement. As science slowly unravels the mysteries of heredity, medicine, agriculture and veterinary science will change for the better

The Health-Care Financing Administration, the folks in the U.S. federal medicare program, just issued a report stating that our collective bill for health care will hit $1.7 trillion US by the year 2000

In 1989 [Westley Allan Dodd], then 28 years old, confessed to authorities in the state of Washington that he had stabbed to death two brothers, Cole and William Neer. He also admitted repeatedly raping and then killing Lee Iseli. Lee Iseli was 4 years old. The Cole brothers were 10 and 11 when Dodd killed them

Sometimes, liver transplant surgery doesn't work. And it is not at all unusual for a second liver transplant to fail. But what was especially troubling about the death of this woman is that she died because she was a participant in a medical experiment