American Medical News 1992 |
Title | Subject | Authors |
7 PHS executives suspended in corruption probe. (U.S. Public Health Service, San Francisco office) | Health | |
A first-hand look at the Russian medical system in 1992. | Health | L.W. Fitzsimmons |
A forum for unity between physicians and chiropractors. (the Center for NeuroChiropractic Education in White Plains, NY) | Health | |
AIDS 'out of control,' will strike everywhere. (Harvard University study) | Health | |
All must share responsibility of working within RBRVS. (resource-based relative value system of medical payments) | Health | Oliver H Dabezies Jr. |
AMA campaign tells medicine's story. (American Medical Association's MD 2000 advertising campaign) (Editorial) | Health | |
AMA dues to remain unchanged in foreseeable future. (American Medical Association) | Health | |
AMA elections; three running unopposed for top Association positions; seven vying for four board seats. (American Medical Association) | Health | |
AMA house - democracy in action. (Editorial) | Health | |
AMA today: more value per dues dollar. (American Medical Association) (Editorial) | Health | |
AMA trustee candidates. (American Medical Association) | Health | |
Among women, the fragile bonds of political alliance. (Column) | Health | Paula S. Krauser |
An ex-salesman tells how to win over difficult patients. (First Person) (Column) | Health | Joseph D. Wassersu |
Answer to all-payer rates: competing conversion factors. (for determining health care charges) (Column) | Health | Eugene S. Ogrod |
A nutrient bottle fuels his body, while a positive attitude does the rest. | Health | |
A plea for expanding the universe of trusted colleagues. (physicians should consider referring patients to alternative medicine practitioners) (Column) | Health | David J. Elpern |
Are extravagant rules and customs costing lives? (Column) | Health | George B. Markle IV |
A reminder from behind bars: live by the ethics, doctor. (Column) | Health | Adria Burrows |
A retirement option for physicians not yet ready to quit. (Column) | Health | Charles R. Attwood |
At residency's start, feeling like a doctor is half the battle. | Health | Catherine Y. Spong |
Australia takes step-by-step approach to health reform. | Health | Elizabeth Ban |
A welcome move toward PRO reform. (Peer Review Organization) (Editorial) | Health | |
Benefit of experience: when medical school alumni and students come together, all of medicine stands to gain. | Health | Janice Rosenberg |
Billions of dollars could be diverted to health care; from tobacco, alcohol subsidies. (Column) | Health | B.C. DeMoss |
Black doctors group supports 'play or pay' on health reform. (National Medical Association) | Health | Timothy F. Kirn |
Body art; anatomical drawings display chronicles the evolution of medical science. (Smart Museum of Art, Chicago, Illinois) | Health | Lisa Newman |
Bombs, threats can't pry war hero from care of wounded. (reminiscences of a Navy doctor) | Health | Samuel R. Sherman |
Calling anencephalic donors dead. (can anencephalic infants be declared dead at birth so that their organs can be transplanted?) (Interview) | Health | Diane Gianelli |
Candidates: debate health reform now! (Editorial) | Health | |
Can the U.S. system rationally ration health care? (reprinted from The Journal of the Florida Medical Association, April 1992 issue) (Column) | Health | Jaques R. Caldwell |
Certificate-of-need bill prompts flurry of activity in Va. (Virginia bill would require state approval of medical equipment purchases, except for purchases registered early) | Health | |
CHAMPUS to use some Medicare physician pay policies. | Health | Sharon McIllrath |
Changing specialties in mid-career; making the switch no easy matter for physicians with established practices. | Health | Margie Garb |
Changing times: as a candidate, Bill Clinton made promises about health care. As president, what will he deliver? | Health | Brian McCormick, Diane M. Gianelli, Laurie Jones, Howard Larkin, Harris Meyer, Linda H. Oberman |
Clinical studies presented at international AIDS meeting. (Eighth International Conference on AIDS) | Health | |
CMA notes cracks appearing in Canadian system. (Canadian Medical Association) | Health | David Woods |
Computer friendly. (integrated clinical information system) | Health | Shirley Moskow |
Coordinate approach to physician practice data. (Column) | Health | Mike Magee |
Cutting health care costs with minimal compromise. (Column) | Health | Dickerman Hollister Jr. |
Delay implementation of single exam. (Column) | Health | Thomas H. Meikle Jr. |
Delegates get council reports for AMA annual meeting. | Health | |
Diagnosing elder abuse; AMA urges doctors to identify and act on growing problem. (includes guidelines) | Health | Roberta Gerry |
Dialogue first step to answers on reform. (medical reform) (Editorial) | Health | |
Doctor group hits tobacco sport sponsorship. (Doctors Out to Care) | Health | |
Doctors give their thoughts on reform proposals. | Health | |
Doctors need to stay united on RBRVS. (resource-based relative value scale) (Editorial) | Health | |
Doctors seek peace through cooperation. (World Medical Association) (Editorial) | Health | |
Don't forget your responsibilities as practice's CEO. (physician chief executive officers) (Column) | Health | Robert Solomon |
Don't hamper foreign anti-smoking efforts. (Editorial) | Health | |
Don't let public misperceptions stand unchallenged. (medicine in the news media) (Column) | Health | Stephen G. Brantley |
Double Entry: MD-PhD programs train physicians to pursue laboratory cures while providing patient care. | Health | Lisa Pollak |
Each side on abortion issue afraid to compromise. (Column) | Health | John F. Spaccarelli |
Embarrassed ophthalmologist sees the light. (not to make conclusions before doing the examination) (Activities of Daily Living: First Person) (Column) | Health | Eric P. Purdy |
End political battle over fetal research. (Editorial) | Health | |
ERISA reform will remove barrier to care. (Employment Retirement Income Security Act) (Editorial) | Health | |
Escaping from unfair peer review's web. (Editorial) | Health | |
Feds closely scrutinizing recruitment incentives. | Health | Joseph Hawkins |
First newly built AIDS home offers long-term care model. (Bailey-Boushay House, Seattle, Washington) | Health | Michael McCarthy |
Florida doctors offer medical lifeline to laid-off workers. (Dade County Medical Association) | Health | Arnold Q. Collins |
For practice tips, solicit an informal network of advisers. (Column) | Health | Charles R. Attwood |
GAO warns that safety of drinking water is threatened. (General Accounting Office) | Health | |
Get office paperwork in shape for payment reform. | Health | Bonnie Landers |
Good communication begins when we learn to listen. (physician and patient) (Column) | Health | M. LeRoy Sprang |
HCFA revises documentation policy for Medicare visits. (Health Care Financing Administration) | Health | |
Health care reform necessary both here and abroad. (Column) | Health | Vincent W. Cangello |
Health officials throughout country see jump in TB cases. (tuberculosis) | Health | |
Heartbreak in crayon: educators tap the expressiveness of children to help educate the Hispanic community about AIDS. (Chicago) | Health | Lisa Newman |
Help coming on new office lab rules. (it's too soon to worry about new rules implementing the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988) (Editorial) | Health | |
Here are some ways to improve the physician's image. (Column) | Health | William B. Monnig |
Here's rundown of Medicare global surgery package. | Health | |
Heterosexual transmission raising worldwide AIDS rate. | Health | |
HHS seeks bigger Medicare surgical fee updates. (Health and Human Services) | Health | |
High stakes for health care. (reform; includes related article) | Health | |
Home care revival. (increase in home-based medical care)(includes related article on the American Academy of Home Care Physicians) | Health | Mark E. Rust |
Hop on board AMA tort reform express. (Editorial) | Health | |
Hospital: doctor was disruptive unprofessional. (privileges can be revoked) (Medicolegal Decisions) | Health | |
Hospitalized uninsured have higher medical injury risk. | Health | |
How much is enough? (physicians' charitable contributions)(includes related article on fund raising by physicians) | Health | Samuel Greengard |
How one plan to give health care to the poor failed. (Column) | Health | Michael Greenberg |
How to prevent drug abuse in pregnancy. (Editorial) | Health | |
Hurricane's emotional damage is also devastating. (Hurricane Andrew) | Health | Elizabeth DeVita |
Immune system problem linked to diabetes. (University of Florida College of Medicine study, Type I diabetes) | Health | |
Indirect route to medicine proved an inspiring journey. (taking a year off) (First Person) | Health | Joshua Sharfstein |
Inspiring lives, preserved in dusty patient records. | Health | Tony Miksanek |
Insurance savings plan could stem health cost spiral. (patients should assume a greater share of the burden) | Health | George B. Markle IV |
Issues of race, poverty and national health insurance. (Column) | Health | Jose Lozano |
It's time for doctors to build bridges. (physicians must work together as the nation's healthcare system is reformed) (Editorial) | Health | |
JAMA editor warns of health system 'meltdown.' (JAMA, The Journal of the American Medical Association; George D. Lundberg; includes information from additional JAMA articles on the health care crisis) | Health | |
Join the AMA alliance against violence. (National Coalition of Physicians Against Family Violence) (Editorial) | Health | |
Learn medicine, see the world. (international clinical clerkships; includes related article and directory of clerkship information sources) | Health | Harlene Ellin |
Let's never forget the personal touch with patients; remembrances of a residency past. (Column) | Health | Leonard Laster |
Let's speak with one voice on reform. (health care reform) (Editorial) | Health | |
Let's use advertising to push healthy choices. (Column) | Health | Robert B. Kimmel |
Limiting risk on retirement plans may not be worth it. (investment plans for physicians) | Health | Kate Griffin |
Look before you lease: landlords may negotiate cost controls, renovations. | Health | LeeAnn Lodder |
Looking abroad for proposals on health care reform. | Health | Jacob Green |
Make changes in system now to cover the uninsured. (California Medical Association's Affordable Basic Care initiative) | Health | Terence F. Maloy |
Malpractice and the health care crisis. (Column) | Health | Jose Lozano |
Medical community seeking consensus on assisted suicide. | Health | Mike Williams |
Medical profession aims to police itself. (Editorial) | Health | |
Medical waste disposal a regulatory nightmare. (Editorial) | Health | |
Medicine's role in stopping teen violence. (Editorial) | Health | |
Meet the press: media-savvy physicians help educate the public while enhancing their own images. (includes related article on public relations training) | Health | Joyce Baldwin |
More physicians taking a second look at leasing. (medical equipment) | Health | Dennis Connaughton |
More steps in fight to cut short smoking. (Editorial) | Health | |
Much has changed for residents over years. (medical residency) (Column) | Health | Christy S. Waters |
New column give RBRVS advice. (Medicare's resource-based relative value scale and payment system, American Medical News column answers readers' questions) | Health | |
New licensing test: more equitable, more effective. (United States Medical Licensing Examination for physician licensure) (Column) | Health | Anthony J. Cortese |
Offer treatment, not fear of prosecution. (pregnant women who use narcotics) (Editorial) | Health | |
Officials debate ob-gyn's place in primary care. (obstetricians, gynecologists want to be part of increased funding for primary care) | Health | |
Once ridiculed, choice of geriatrics now seems visionary. | Health | A. Mark Clarfield |
Oregon in 'Catch-22' spot: state can't get answers on how to change Medicaid reform plan. | Health | Diane Lund |
OSHA develops pilot TB control guidelines; national standards for TB treatment could be next. (Occupational Safety and Health Administration; tuberculosis) | Health | |
OSHA rule a new challenge to doctors. (Occupational Safety and Health Administration) (Editorial) | Health | |
PA. governor urges Democrats to back away from abortion. (Robert P. Casey) | Health | |
Part-timers. (part-time doctors) | Health | Delia O'Hara |
Physician copes with fitness-crazed geriatric patients. (humor) (Column) | Health | Eric G. Anderson |
Physician's dog helps her restore patient's will to live. | Health | Adria Burrows |
Physicians have always offered free health care to needy. (Column) | Health | Thomas L. Adams |
Physicians should not be executioners. (Editorial) | Health | |
Physician's words can undermine patient's recovery. | Health | Margaret Orsinger |
Physician tells of her struggle to leave abusive husband. (Christine S. Dotterer) | Health | Christine S. Dotterer |
Political involvement a must for doctors. (Editorial) | Health | |
Powerful bond with patient grows out of tragic outcome. (Column) | Health | Richard V. Ohmart |
PPOs, access, oversight among medical societies' concerns. (issues of primary concern to medical associations in Tennessee, Alabama, Missouri) | Health | |
Praying for legal wisdom to allow new life from tragedy. (impediments to donating organs from an infant) | Health | Robert J. Lerer |
Professional tennis helped prepare her for medicine. (Dr. Victoria McEvoy) | Health | Victoria McEvoy |
Prophylactic mastectomy emerging as way to cut cancer risk. | Health | Peter Korn |
Protecting your investment. (physicians' ownership of imaging centers; includes related article on self-referral) | Health | Mary Wagner |
Pushing the message to Capitol Hill. (health care legislation of the 1992 Congress) (Editorial) | Health | |
Putting more women on medicine's team. (Editorial) | Health | |
Putting the care back in medical care; physicians find paying attention to the extras enhances patient satisfaction. | Health | Joseph Breu |
Putting the quality pieces together (components of excellent care) (Editorial) | Health | |
Recollections of a medical examiner. (Column) | Health | R.C. Wooters |
Records reviewable in investigation. (hospital's records disclosed in criminal action) | Health | |
Remembering the right-to-die struggles. | Health | June Zimmerman |
Residency is starting, and oh no, she's pregnant. (pediatrician recounts training experiences) (Column) | Health | Victoria R. McEvoy |
Retirement was paradise ... for about a week! | Health | Harold M. Childress |
Retiring reformer. (Oregon health planner John Kitzhaber, MD) | Health | Diane Lund |
Right attitude is a must for successful marketing. (medical practice marketing advice) | Health | Danielle Kennedy, Neil Baum |
Romanian health suffers with few funds for care. | Health | Paul McGinn, Sean Hillen |
Romanian medicine easing into private practice initiative. | Health | Paul R. McGinn, Sean Hillen |
Ruling broadens protection for retirement savings. (from professional liability and bankruptcy claims) | Health | Howard Lakrin |
Russian evolution. (health care in the former Soviet Union) | Health | Nina Sandlin |
Samaritans of the air. (volunteer pilots transport patients)(includes information on organizations that can help patients with transportation needs) | Health | Mark Shuman |
Seeing our mortality - and morbidity - in nursing home rounds. | Health | A. Phelan-Adams |
Sexual harassment should not be tolerated. (survey of female physicians and medical students) (Editorial) | Health | |
Show your support for animal research. (physicians should take a public stand) (Editorial) | Health | |
Sign-on bonuses gaining popularity in recruitment. | Health | Dennis Connaughton |
Six secrets that someone should tell our patients. (patient understanding of physicians' services) (Column) | Health | William R. Phillips |
Solutions - good and bad - to reform health system. (Column) | Health | George M. Bohigian |
Sometimes it's especially tough to say goodbye. (to dying patients) (Column) | Health | Rita D. Woods |
Staff gatherings can solve problems, help plan for growth. | Health | Michael Kurtz E. |
Stamp out economic credentialing. (method hospitals use to determine physician privileges and appointments) (Editorial) | Health | |
Standard equipment cleaning may not protect dental patients. (cleaning with germicidal solution not enough to prevent HIV transmission) | Health | |
Study: Type A mothers' personality found in offspring. (Boston City Hospital, Boston University School of Medicine, and Clemson University study) | Health | |
Tax Havens and Their Uses, 1990. (Column) | Health | A.M. Clarfield |
Texas moves on private psychiatric, rehab hospital abuse. (rehabilitation hospitals) | Health | Linda Little |
The bare-bones, low-risk, play-or-pay insider's guide to health reform jargon. (Glossary) | Health | |
The domestic violence issue: hear our voices. (excerpts from speech by Surgeon General Antonia C. Novello) (Transcript) | Health | |
The executioner's assistant: is it ethical for physicians to participate? Medical groups say no. (includes related articles) | Health | LeeAnn Lodder |
The intolerable imperfection of medical judgment. (Column) | Health | Kirsti A. Dyer |
The last flight of William Schick, MD: a postscript. (flight surgeon killed at Pearl Harbor) | Health | Donald T. McSherry |
Then and now: putting the patient first. (the rising cost of health care was already an issue back in 1967) (Editorial) | Health | |
The necessary involvement of stewardship in medicine. (Column) | Health | J. Chris Hawk III |
The need to bring more minority students into medicine. (Column) | Health | Beverly B. Huckman, Bruce Rattenbury |
The physician's new care companion: interactive videodiscs expand the patient's role in making treatment decisions. | Health | Samuel Greenguard |
The problem with today's health care reform proposals. (Column) | Health | Jacques R. Caldwell |
There's no 'quick fix' for problems of a practice. | Health | Anne-Marie Nelson |
The 'right to die' isn't the same as the 'right to be killed.' (health care professionals should not be killers) (Column) | Health | Stanley M. Marks |
Through decades of practice, two words stand out. (retired general surgeon remembers his many patients who said 'thank you') | Health | Hirsh John H. |
Through stomach to brain: some food for thought. (explaining medical problems by using analogies) | Health | Donavin A. Baumgartner |
Time to unlock secrets of medical review. (Editorial) | Health | |
Tired of medicine? Maybe it's time to explore options. | Health | Joe Ann Jackson |
Today's physicians are being asked to do too much. (Column) | Health | Vincent W. Cangello |
To die in peace: Whose right is it? Whose choice? (Column) | Health | V.S. Saxena |
Total picture needs to change in medical education. (medical education reform) (Column) | Health | John J. Whyte |
Training employees is good preventive medicine. | Health | Robert Solomon |
Treatment is promising for autoimmune disorders; photochemotherapy studied. | Health | |
Treat substance abuse before it's too late. (physician's responsibility to detect and treat substance abuse) (Editorial) | Health | |
True free enterprise best solution in health care reform. (Column) | Health | George F. Wittkopp |
Two sides of emergency medicine: exciting, but stresses catch up with many doctors. | Health | Delia O'Hara |
Unsnarl the Medicare regulatory tangle. (physician compensation) (Editorial) | Health | |
We must not distance ourselves from patients' costs. (medical finance) (Column) | Health | Burton J. Kushner |
We need a new policy on fetal tissue research. (Column) | Health | Stanley M. Marks |
Western inspiration. (the American Medical Center, a group practice in Moscow) | Health | John Holden |
What doctors can do to help curb domestic violence. (Column) | Health | Thomas C. Payne |
What is real cause of U.S. complaints about health care? (Column) | Health | Tim Norbeck |
When care for kids should be confidential. (American Medical Association positions on parental notification) (Editorial) | Health | |
When was it that physicians became the bad guys? (Column) | Health | David M. Mokotoff |
Where is medicine's enemy? Sometimes it's in the mirror. (Column) | Health | Jeffrey H. Lamont |
Will you take an IOU? Clinicians feeling effects of California's cash crunch. | Health | Timothy F. Kirn |
With an agenda for caring, we can make a difference. | Health | Marie G. Kuffner |
Women in medicine: numbers growing, roles changing. | Health | Teresa M. Rackauckas |
Word is out, but many are still ignoring AIDS warnings. (Column) | Health | Alan W. Johnson |
You can help elderly live without fear. (Editorial) | Health | |
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