Volume 6, No. 2, Summer 2001

Feature Articles

Medicaid and Health Care Reform (Part I)
by Kyle McCammon, DO

Canada's Fatal Error --- Health Care as a Right (Part II)
by Michael E. Aubrey, MD

Risk Management Advice to Physicians: Don't Push Gun Control
to Your Patients
by Joe Horn


Editorials
The 'Tavistock Principles' of Medical Ethics by Jerome C. Arnett, Jr., MD
Tavistock "Shared Ethics" --- A Slippery Slope by Miguel A. Faria, Jr., MD

Commentaries
Medicine and the Promise of the Internet by David A. Westbrook, MD, FACP, FACE
Tossing Medical Privacy Out the Window by Miguel A. Faria, Jr., MD
Meditation of a Conscientious Physician by Hans Madueme, MD

Departments
Correspondence: Spring 2001 Issue --- Doctors and Guns (Part II), Ritalin --- Pharmaceutical Blackmail, Rejecting Medicare Patients, Retiring Early, Physicians Almost Unanimous in Opposition to "Privacy" Regulations

News Capsules: Medical Savings Account Availability Act, E-mail Monitoring and Cell Phone Tracking Eroding Personal Privacy, Medical Privacy Sources, Bush Administration to Create Database for Medical Errors, Day Care Children and Behavioral Problems, Junk Science Awards, Drug Treatment or Surgery? Waiting Lists in Ireland, Death Rates From Guns Decline, Canada's Firearms Registry, Compassion in Dying of Oregon, Euthanasia Cruises, Columbia University Awards Coveted Bancroft Prize to Controversial Author, Russia Struggling With Private Property

President's Page
Reform of Medicare May Be Possible by Robert J. Cihak, MD

Editor's Corner
Public Health --- From Science to Politics by Miguel A. Faria, Jr., MD

The Constitution - Plain and Simple
Religion, Politics, and the Constitution (Part I) by Curtis W. Caine, MD

Report From the States
Ohio Physician Can No Longer Treat Injured Workers by Kenneth D. Christman, MD

Book Reviews
P.C., M.D.: How Political Correctness is Corrupting Medicine by Sally Satel, MD. Reviewed by Mark Schiller, MD

 

 

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