Faculty Bibliography

Perhaps the most important tool we can borrow from our neighbors is the use of fixed overall budgets. Fixed budgets do have a price. They are likely to restrict access to specialists and expensive technology. But the trade-off in terms of greater access to primary care and preventive services, which each of these countries displays, seems worth it. For until these countries decided to place caps on their health care budgets, they were burdened, as we continue to be, with spiraling inflation in prices and cost. The rest of the industrialized world knows that cost containment requires governments to set fixed caps on how much money can be spent on health care each year

In rich nations, diarrhea is a vaguely amusing, embarrassing disorder associated with eating and drinking too much. But, as David Werner makes clear in a short but important article in the April issue of the journal Pediatrics, in poor countries diarrhea is no joke

In rich nations, diarrhea is a vaguely amusing, embarrassing disorder associated with eating and drinking too much. But, as David Werner makes clear in a short but important article in the April issue of the journal Pediatrics, in poor countries, diarrhea is no joke

Arthur Caplan discusses what he calls the myth in health care, the notion that health care costs are high because America spends too much on expensive medical care for old people who are terminally ill. He presents a study by James D. Lubitz and Gerald F. Riley which negates this theory

James D. Lubitz and Gerald F. Riley, who are at the Health Care Financing Administration in Baltimore, the outfit that runs the federal Medicare program, believe the figures about the cost of health care for those in the last year of life are often misinterpreted or exaggerated

My doubts have nothing to do with a failure to understand the enormity of the problem. Nearly a third of all AIDS cases in the United States are the result of needle-sharing among addicts. Someone who has the HIV virus can pass it on to others if they use needles or syringes that have come in contact with the infected person's blood

I decided to forgo the chance to stand on the White House lawn and bask in the gratitude of [Hillary Clinton] and Bill for giving them the benefit of my insights as to how to spend your tax money in favor of offering advice to 8-year-olds about the importance of keeping their eyes on the ball when fielding grounders. I told my son that there was no need to go back to Washington because the debate about health care is really only just about to begin

While the themes of science out of control and a science indifferent to human values do not accurately describe what is taking place in genetics today, Jurassic Park does accurately reflect anxieties about genetic engineering that have deep roots in our culture