American Medical News 1992 - Abstracts

American Medical News 1992
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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.HealthL.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)HealthOliver 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)HealthPaula S. Krauser
An ex-salesman tells how to win over difficult patients. (First Person) (Column)HealthJoseph D. Wassersu
Answer to all-payer rates: competing conversion factors. (for determining health care charges) (Column)HealthEugene 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)HealthDavid J. Elpern
Are extravagant rules and customs costing lives? (Column)HealthGeorge B. Markle IV
A reminder from behind bars: live by the ethics, doctor. (Column)HealthAdria Burrows
A retirement option for physicians not yet ready to quit. (Column)HealthCharles R. Attwood
At residency's start, feeling like a doctor is half the battle.HealthCatherine Y. Spong
Australia takes step-by-step approach to health reform.HealthElizabeth 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.HealthJanice Rosenberg
Billions of dollars could be diverted to health care; from tobacco, alcohol subsidies. (Column)HealthB.C. DeMoss
Black doctors group supports 'play or pay' on health reform. (National Medical Association)HealthTimothy F. Kirn
Body art; anatomical drawings display chronicles the evolution of medical science. (Smart Museum of Art, Chicago, Illinois)HealthLisa Newman
Bombs, threats can't pry war hero from care of wounded. (reminiscences of a Navy doctor)HealthSamuel R. Sherman
Calling anencephalic donors dead. (can anencephalic infants be declared dead at birth so that their organs can be transplanted?) (Interview)HealthDiane 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)HealthJaques 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.HealthSharon McIllrath
Changing specialties in mid-career; making the switch no easy matter for physicians with established practices.HealthMargie Garb
Changing times: as a candidate, Bill Clinton made promises about health care. As president, what will he deliver?HealthBrian 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)HealthDavid Woods
Computer friendly. (integrated clinical information system)HealthShirley Moskow
Coordinate approach to physician practice data. (Column)HealthMike Magee
Cutting health care costs with minimal compromise. (Column)HealthDickerman Hollister Jr.
Delay implementation of single exam. (Column)HealthThomas 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)HealthRoberta 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)HealthRobert Solomon
Don't hamper foreign anti-smoking efforts. (Editorial)Health 
Don't let public misperceptions stand unchallenged. (medicine in the news media) (Column)HealthStephen G. Brantley
Double Entry: MD-PhD programs train physicians to pursue laboratory cures while providing patient care.HealthLisa Pollak
Each side on abortion issue afraid to compromise. (Column)HealthJohn F. Spaccarelli
Embarrassed ophthalmologist sees the light. (not to make conclusions before doing the examination) (Activities of Daily Living: First Person) (Column)HealthEric 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.HealthJoseph Hawkins
First newly built AIDS home offers long-term care model. (Bailey-Boushay House, Seattle, Washington)HealthMichael McCarthy
Florida doctors offer medical lifeline to laid-off workers. (Dade County Medical Association)HealthArnold Q. Collins
For practice tips, solicit an informal network of advisers. (Column)HealthCharles R. Attwood
GAO warns that safety of drinking water is threatened. (General Accounting Office)Health 
Get office paperwork in shape for payment reform.HealthBonnie Landers
Good communication begins when we learn to listen. (physician and patient) (Column)HealthM. LeRoy Sprang
HCFA revises documentation policy for Medicare visits. (Health Care Financing Administration)Health 
Health care reform necessary both here and abroad. (Column)HealthVincent 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)HealthLisa 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)HealthWilliam 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)HealthMark 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)HealthSamuel Greengard
How one plan to give health care to the poor failed. (Column)HealthMichael Greenberg
How to prevent drug abuse in pregnancy. (Editorial)Health 
Hurricane's emotional damage is also devastating. (Hurricane Andrew)HealthElizabeth 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)HealthJoshua Sharfstein
Inspiring lives, preserved in dusty patient records.HealthTony Miksanek
Insurance savings plan could stem health cost spiral. (patients should assume a greater share of the burden)HealthGeorge B. Markle IV
Issues of race, poverty and national health insurance. (Column)HealthJose 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)HealthHarlene Ellin
Let's never forget the personal touch with patients; remembrances of a residency past. (Column)HealthLeonard Laster
Let's speak with one voice on reform. (health care reform) (Editorial)Health 
Let's use advertising to push healthy choices. (Column)HealthRobert B. Kimmel
Limiting risk on retirement plans may not be worth it. (investment plans for physicians)HealthKate Griffin
Look before you lease: landlords may negotiate cost controls, renovations.HealthLeeAnn Lodder
Looking abroad for proposals on health care reform.HealthJacob Green
Make changes in system now to cover the uninsured. (California Medical Association's Affordable Basic Care initiative)HealthTerence F. Maloy
Malpractice and the health care crisis. (Column)HealthJose Lozano
Medical community seeking consensus on assisted suicide.HealthMike 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)HealthJoyce Baldwin
More physicians taking a second look at leasing. (medical equipment)HealthDennis Connaughton
More steps in fight to cut short smoking. (Editorial)Health 
Much has changed for residents over years. (medical residency) (Column)HealthChristy 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)HealthAnthony 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.HealthA. Mark Clarfield
Oregon in 'Catch-22' spot: state can't get answers on how to change Medicaid reform plan.HealthDiane 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)HealthDelia O'Hara
Physician copes with fitness-crazed geriatric patients. (humor) (Column)HealthEric G. Anderson
Physician's dog helps her restore patient's will to live.HealthAdria Burrows
Physicians have always offered free health care to needy. (Column)HealthThomas L. Adams
Physicians should not be executioners. (Editorial)Health 
Physician's words can undermine patient's recovery.HealthMargaret Orsinger
Physician tells of her struggle to leave abusive husband. (Christine S. Dotterer)HealthChristine S. Dotterer
Political involvement a must for doctors. (Editorial)Health 
Powerful bond with patient grows out of tragic outcome. (Column)HealthRichard 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)HealthRobert J. Lerer
Professional tennis helped prepare her for medicine. (Dr. Victoria McEvoy)HealthVictoria McEvoy
Prophylactic mastectomy emerging as way to cut cancer risk.HealthPeter Korn
Protecting your investment. (physicians' ownership of imaging centers; includes related article on self-referral)HealthMary 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.HealthJoseph Breu
Putting the quality pieces together (components of excellent care) (Editorial)Health 
Recollections of a medical examiner. (Column)HealthR.C. Wooters
Records reviewable in investigation. (hospital's records disclosed in criminal action)Health 
Remembering the right-to-die struggles.HealthJune Zimmerman
Residency is starting, and oh no, she's pregnant. (pediatrician recounts training experiences) (Column)HealthVictoria R. McEvoy
Retirement was paradise ... for about a week!HealthHarold M. Childress
Retiring reformer. (Oregon health planner John Kitzhaber, MD)HealthDiane Lund
Right attitude is a must for successful marketing. (medical practice marketing advice)HealthDanielle Kennedy, Neil Baum
Romanian health suffers with few funds for care.HealthPaul McGinn, Sean Hillen
Romanian medicine easing into private practice initiative.HealthPaul R. McGinn, Sean Hillen
Ruling broadens protection for retirement savings. (from professional liability and bankruptcy claims)HealthHoward Lakrin
Russian evolution. (health care in the former Soviet Union)HealthNina Sandlin
Samaritans of the air. (volunteer pilots transport patients)(includes information on organizations that can help patients with transportation needs)HealthMark Shuman
Seeing our mortality - and morbidity - in nursing home rounds.HealthA. 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.HealthDennis Connaughton
Six secrets that someone should tell our patients. (patient understanding of physicians' services) (Column)HealthWilliam R. Phillips
Solutions - good and bad - to reform health system. (Column)HealthGeorge M. Bohigian
Sometimes it's especially tough to say goodbye. (to dying patients) (Column)HealthRita D. Woods
Staff gatherings can solve problems, help plan for growth.HealthMichael 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)HealthA.M. Clarfield
Texas moves on private psychiatric, rehab hospital abuse. (rehabilitation hospitals)HealthLinda 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)HealthLeeAnn Lodder
The intolerable imperfection of medical judgment. (Column)HealthKirsti A. Dyer
The last flight of William Schick, MD: a postscript. (flight surgeon killed at Pearl Harbor)HealthDonald 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)HealthJ. Chris Hawk III
The need to bring more minority students into medicine. (Column)HealthBeverly B. Huckman, Bruce Rattenbury
The physician's new care companion: interactive videodiscs expand the patient's role in making treatment decisions.HealthSamuel Greenguard
The problem with today's health care reform proposals. (Column)HealthJacques R. Caldwell
There's no 'quick fix' for problems of a practice.HealthAnne-Marie Nelson
The 'right to die' isn't the same as the 'right to be killed.' (health care professionals should not be killers) (Column)HealthStanley 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)HealthDonavin A. Baumgartner
Time to unlock secrets of medical review. (Editorial)Health 
Tired of medicine? Maybe it's time to explore options.HealthJoe Ann Jackson
Today's physicians are being asked to do too much. (Column)HealthVincent W. Cangello
To die in peace: Whose right is it? Whose choice? (Column)HealthV.S. Saxena
Total picture needs to change in medical education. (medical education reform) (Column)HealthJohn J. Whyte
Training employees is good preventive medicine.HealthRobert 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)HealthGeorge F. Wittkopp
Two sides of emergency medicine: exciting, but stresses catch up with many doctors.HealthDelia O'Hara
Unsnarl the Medicare regulatory tangle. (physician compensation) (Editorial)Health 
We must not distance ourselves from patients' costs. (medical finance) (Column)HealthBurton J. Kushner
We need a new policy on fetal tissue research. (Column)HealthStanley M. Marks
Western inspiration. (the American Medical Center, a group practice in Moscow)HealthJohn Holden
What doctors can do to help curb domestic violence. (Column)HealthThomas C. Payne
What is real cause of U.S. complaints about health care? (Column)HealthTim 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)HealthDavid M. Mokotoff
Where is medicine's enemy? Sometimes it's in the mirror. (Column)HealthJeffrey H. Lamont
Will you take an IOU? Clinicians feeling effects of California's cash crunch.HealthTimothy F. Kirn
With an agenda for caring, we can make a difference.HealthMarie G. Kuffner
Women in medicine: numbers growing, roles changing.HealthTeresa M. Rackauckas
Word is out, but many are still ignoring AIDS warnings. (Column)HealthAlan W. Johnson
You can help elderly live without fear. (Editorial)Health 
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