Tag: writing
group name: healthyself
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September 27, 2007 09:10 AM EDT --
Placing the laptop bag on the office chair, I glanced at the "to do" stack of charts on the short metal bookcase in my office. Going through the mountain of charts filled with medication . . . more
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October 19, 2007 11:29 PM EDT --
When the first widely used antibiotic, penicillin, gained wide spread use in the 1930's it was effective against many bacteria including staphylococcus aureus . Within a decade of medicine's . . . more
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March 25, 2008 03:21 PM EDT --
In 1929 a group of teachers in Dallas received what is generally considered the first modern health care insurance plan. At a rate of fifty dollars per month, they were considered to be pre-paid . . . more
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January 14, 2008 11:01 AM EST --
Have you ever gone to your doctor's office and received a small bottle or blister pack containing a medication sample? Chances are good that if your physician is among the 78% of doctors . . . more
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January 14, 2008 11:16 AM EST --
Politicians and policy makers often will take a stance that one of the solutions to our health care woes is to reward physicians who provide quality medical care. This isn't too much of a . . . more
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March 25, 2008 03:23 PM EDT --
Politicians and policy makers generally look at the decline of the US healthcare system from a broad macro-perspective-numbers of uninsured, newborn mortality rates, the cost of healthcare as a percentage . . . more
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April 17, 2008 04:58 PM EDT --
On the second Wednesday of the month for the last eight years a group of ten or so primary care physicians in an average American community has met over dinner for an event known as Journal . . . more
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October 04, 2007 08:39 AM EDT --
Standing on the back porch of the building I gazed out at the miles of evergreens surrounding our small logging and farming town. Clouds now blanketed the sky heralding fall in the Pacific Northwest. . . . more
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October 24, 2007 01:15 PM EDT --
The view of downtown from the forty first floor of the office building was nothing short of spectacular. Large pane windows that consumed an entire wall allowed a full view of monstrous . . . more
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December 10, 2007 09:16 AM EST --
Sometimes I walk out of the exam room and just shake my head in disgust. It happened again. With a deep sigh, I acknowledge that now I'm behind schedule and going to spend the rest of the . . . more
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