| American Medical News 1995 |
| Title | Subject | Authors |
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| 30 ways to make your practice more 'patient friendly'. | Health | Susan Keane Baker |
| Abortion training mandate sparks furor. | Health | Diane Gianelli |
| Adding folic acid to food best for cutting birth defects. | Health | |
| Advance directives.(Editorial) | Health | |
| After all those years of training, are we having fun yet?(physicians) | Health | Jorge A. Perez |
| Alliance focuses efforts on anti-violence campaign.(American Medical Association Alliance Inc.) | Health | |
| AMA delegates will consider board, council reports.(American Medical Association, 1995 Annual Meeting) | Health | |
| AMA going to bat for doctors at all levels, leaders say. (American Medical Assn.)(Annual Meeting News) | Health | |
| AMA guidelines address treatment of sexual assault.(American Medical Assocation) | Health | |
| AMA outlines reform principles to assure Medicare's viability. (American Medical Association) | Health | Barbara Bolsen |
| AMA presents 9 awards for contributions in medicine. (American Medical Assn.)(Annual Meeting News) | Health | |
| AMA reports hidden epidemic of elderly alcoholism.(American Medical Association) | Health | |
| AMA's ethics council is seeking physician comments. (American Medical Association; a variety of topics) | Health | |
| A matter of trust: the House GOP's Medicare proposal contains many of the specifics medicine has been fighting for - and something more.(Editorial) | Health | |
| AMA wants to know. (American Medical Association wants physicians to report experiences with health plans)(Editorial) | Health | |
| America the violent: this nation's rotten report card on how it deals with violence is a call to action.(Editorial) | Health | |
| Anesthesiologists sue Aetna: made us skimp quality.(Aetna Life and Casualty) | Health | Rachel Kreier |
| Another fairy tale unfolding, with the ending yet to be written. (address on Medicare and family violence issues by outgoing American Medical Assn president Robert E. McAfee)(Annual Meeting News) | Health | |
| Anti-clotting treatment not for stroke patients. | Health | |
| Antimicrobials best therapy for bacteria-related ulcers.(Helicobacter pylori eradication) | Health | |
| Antitrust? Or anti-competition?(antitrust laws barring physician-sponsored coordinated care organizations)(Editorial) | Health | |
| A paperless office - in practice. (medical office) | Health | Dean Seeman |
| Are you covered?(purchasing malpractice insurance) | Health | Eugene R. Anderson, Joshua Gold |
| As physicians grow older, their patient base changes.(First Person)(Column) | Health | Richard V. Ohmart |
| Bad outcome alone not enough to prove negligence.(medical procedure outcome, Medicolegal Decisions) | Health | |
| Becoming the middleman: direct contracting can be done, but it means taking on burdens your insurer once shouldered. | Health | Bill Clemens |
| Be honest - and patient - with your teen patients. | Health | Arthur Elster |
| Bill includes limited, but significant, patient protections.(House Medicare bill) | Health | Janet Firshein |
| Budget compromise on track?(White House and Congress still in talks) | Health | Julie Johnson |
| Budget-cutting ax slashes public health.(1996 Congressional budget resolutions) | Health | Christopher Kent |
| Building a better federation.(organized medicine)(Editorial) | Health | |
| ... But worries about Medicare; entitlements debate could preview cuts to come. (New hope for key agenda items) (Physicians Look to the New Congress) | Health | Cathy Tokarski |
| Bye-bye baby.(Editorial) | Health | |
| Capital idea: AMA project an investment in the future of the profession. (American Medical Association; Physicians Capital Source links investors with physicians) (Editorial) | Health | |
| Care teams - a practical approach to managed care.(Expert's Corner)(Column) | Health | Judy Capko, Mary Jean Sage |
| CDC encouraging informed decisions on sterilization.(Centers for Disease Control) | Health | |
| CDC starts early warning infection control system. (Centers for Disease Control) | Health | |
| Changing attitudes: death seen as failure, not natural. | Health | |
| Changing health care system brings new legal risks. | Health | David Woods |
| Chief outlines group organization's future direction.(Medical Group Management Association)(Commentary)(Column) | Health | Frederick J. Wenzel |
| Cholesterol level was 394, but VA didn't treat it for 2 years.(malpractice suit against Veteran's Administration hospital)(Medicolegal Decisions) | Health | |
| Clean air everywhere.(indoor smoking controls)(Editorial) | Health | |
| Clinton offers his Medicare blueprint. | Health | Cathy Tokarski |
| Convenient corruption: a dispute about executions reveals risk to medical ethics.(Editorial) | Health | |
| Council forum marks 75 years of patient advocacy. (National Health Council's National Health Forum) | Health | |
| Counseling against smoking needn't be expensive. | Health | Thomas P. Houston |
| County, state medical societies shouldn't be forgotten.(Commentary)(Column) | Health | Robert M. Tenery |
| Desperately seeking Internet access provider.(resources for choosing one) | Health | |
| Discussing weight requires sensitivity, awareness. | Health | Linda Bresolin |
| Dispelling myths: marketing controversial, but not evil. (medical practice) | Health | Curtis P. Hamann, Richard C. Langer |
| Doctors in the House (and the Senate) | Health | Ryan Ver Berkmoes |
| Don't run away from a colleague with substance abuse. (physicians' practice) | Health | Larry S. Goldman |
| Double vision: dissatisfaction with medicine and the desire to fulfill personal goals are among the reasons why physicians pursue dual careers. | Health | Shirley Moskow |
| Do you have a strategy for handling managed care? (physician practices) | Health | Darrell L. Schryver |
| Drug firm penalized over failure to warn physician. (Somophyllin Oral Liquid, theophylline) | Health | |
| Dutch group favors distancing doctors from euthanasia.(Royal Dutch Medical Association) | Health | |
| Estate planning: a final gift of love for your survivors. | Health | Judith Headington McGee |
| Estate planning: specific tools to build your gift of love. | Health | Judith Headington McGee |
| Everyone benefits everyone pays; look beyond government to pay and plan for graduate medical education's future.(Editorial) | Health | |
| Expanding generalist work force seen as ill-conceived.(primary care physicians) | Health | |
| Experience makes a difference in angioplasty success. | Health | |
| Female genital mutilation.(Editorial) | Health | |
| Fight fraud. (healthcare fraud)(Editorial) | Health | |
| Filtered blood reduces adverse effects of transfusions. | Health | |
| First payer to launch drug-benefit management firm.(Blue Cross of Idaho and Caremark International plan prescription benefit management firm) | Health | Breg Borzo |
| Fixing Medicare: resources are running out; act now to save the future.(Editorial) | Health | |
| Formulary fundamentals: ethical rules a must when limits put on what can be prescribed.(Editorial) | Health | |
| Fraud suspected over incontinence supplies. (Medicare fraud) | Health | |
| Friend in court. (American Medical Assn. State Medical Society Litigation Center) (Editorial) | Health | |
| Getting up to speed. (medical information resources available on the Internet) (Information Tools) | Health | Bill Clements |
| Glaxo bids $15 billion to buy Wellcome, maker of AZT. (Glaxo PLC; Wellcome PLC) | Health | greg Borzo |
| Going where help is needed.(Project USA arranges short-term assignments to underserved areas) | Health | |
| Groups must negotiate ways to change income division. (physician group practices) | Health | Sandra E.D. McGraw |
| Group success requires effective decision-making. | Health | Richard D. Hansen |
| Guidelines right road for AMA.(American Medical Association)(Editorial) | Health | |
| Help comes in many forms, from many different people. (help for physicians) (Column) | Health | Eric G. Anderson |
| Help your patients change. (Editorial) | Health | |
| Hepatitis B vaccine urged for all infants, adolescents. | Health | |
| How practices should get ready for managed care. (medical practices) | Health | Patricia M. Tinkelman |
| How to choose the mutual funds that are right for you. | Health | Lee Catalano |
| How to manage your legal resources in integration.(forming group medical practices or integrated delivery networks) | Health | Bruce A. Johnson |
| How to take a comprehensive view of sexual health.(question and answer format)(Healthy Practice) | Health | Peter A. Leone |
| How you can comment on Medicare's review of RBRVS. (physicians, resource-based relative value scale) | Health | |
| 'I don't know - who cares?' behind sky-high spending.(cost of medical care)(Column) | Health | Leonard J. Morse |
| If the cap fits ... wear it. (physicians and capitation)(includes excerpts from book 'Capitation: The Physician's Guide') | Health | |
| Immunity applies only to actions of committees.(Hospital Licensing Act) | Health | |
| Impact of drug industry mergers is still uncertain. | Health | |
| Increasing visibility: new President Scott sees Alliance as a cohesive force for medicine. (AMA Alliance President Sharon Scott) | Health | Linda Prager |
| In memory and praise for lessons taught by a cadaver. | Health | S. Horatio Slawson |
| Insurance underwriting guidelines seem unrelated to risk. | Health | |
| Integration success depends on 'mental model' shift.(hospital-physician integration) | Health | Alden Solovy |
| Investment in the future: act now to save important student aid program.(Editorial) | Health | |
| Iowa debate: should disciplinary charges be disclosed?(physician discipline) | Health | |
| Is your medical facility becoming obsolete? | Health | Michael Curtis |
| It's a violent country; prevention remains a priority for the AMA.(American Medical Association report on violence) | Health | |
| It's time to adopt new strategies for payment success.(medical offices)(Column) | Health | Gary Takacs |
| Joint commission flap obscures its quality mission. (My Opinion) (Column) | Health | Raymond Scalettar |
| Kid tobacco report kept on shelf while program gutted. | Health | |
| Lasker awards honor physicians, scientists, senator. (Albert Lasker Medical Research Awards) | Health | |
| Leave yourself an out.(medical practice mergers) | Health | |
| Legacy of lead; AMA supports widespread screening for childhood exposure. (American Medical Association) (Editorial) | Health | Cynthia Von Buhler |
| Lessons a young physician learned from a dying man.(Column) | Health | Barney Maynard |
| Limiting IMGs won't affect most hospitals in serving poor.(international medical graduates) | Health | |
| Make your voice heard. (ways for physicians to become involved in state health care reforms) | Health | Sandra Lee Breisch |
| Making international investments: is it right for you? | Health | Ronald J. Paprocki |
| Manipulative therapy gains interest; DOs seeks more study.(osteopathic manipulative treatment, osteopathic physicians) | Health | Liegh Page |
| Med ed cuts threaten U.S. leadership in medicine. (medical education)(Column) | Health | John J. Piderit |
| Medicare considers cataract surgery coverage limit. | Health | |
| Medicare: now do it right.(the American Medical Association's plan for Medicare reform)(Editorial) (Editorial) | Health | |
| Medicine's milestone year: 1995.(Column) | Health | |
| Meet your employees' needs to improve office 'picture.' | Health | Linda J. Segall |
| MGMA embraces the 'accountability continuum.'(group medical practices)(Column) | Health | Donald J. Lloyd |
| Mismanaged care.(managed care programs)(Editorial) | Health | |
| Model for sharing. (Illinois Partners for Global Health distributes medical supplies to underdeveloped countries)(Editorial) | Health | |
| More patients need their second chance at life. (solving organ donor shortages)(Column) | Health | Robert M. Jr. Tenery |
| Most nursing homes fall short of new standards. | Health | |
| Needlesticks down at VA hospitals; cause not clear. (needles sticking nurses and other employees, Department of Veterans Affairs hospitals) | Health | |
| New antiviral drug could slow AIDS-related blindness.(cidofovir) | Health | |
| New drugs offer more options for type II diabetes. | Health | |
| New model helps identify patients ICU can't save. (intensive care unit) | Health | |
| New name, new energy for tackling threats to autonomy.(American Medical Association) | Health | Julie Johnson |
| New statistics show increasing prevalence of diabetes.(in the US) | Health | |
| New year a good time to resolve to keep better records. (physician practices) | Health | Cathy Goldsticker, Rita Schwager |
| NIH removing 'misconduct' flags from Dr. Fisher's work. (National Institutes of Health, noted breast cancer research Bernard Fisher M.D.) | Health | |
| No 'deal' on Medicare, just honorable advocacy.(Commentary)(Column) | Health | Lonnie R. Bristow |
| N.Y. doctors ready to sue over lack of Medicaid pay. | Health | Anne Stein |
| N.Y. suit fights increasingly common HMO 'gag rules.'(managed care contracts' rules on physician-patient communications) | Health | Rachel Kreier |
| One-fourth of preschoolers have gaps in health coverage.(Journal of the American Medical Association article) | Health | |
| One-third of injuries to children are sports-related. | Health | |
| Panel urges risky baboon transplant for AIDS patient. (Jeff Getty) | Health | |
| Partner benefits uncommon, but not costly, says study.(domestic partner employee health benefits; study by Hewitt Associates) | Health | |
| Peer reviewers' 'conspiracy' was to ensure quality of care.(cardiologist's case) | Health | |
| Pig organs could reduce need for human donors. | Health | |
| Policy research agency faces its own cost/benefit analysis. (budget for Agency for Health Care Policy and research will probably be cut) | Health | Linda Prager |
| Preserving the mission. (Lawndale Christian Health Center, Chicago, Illinois) | Health | Robert Heuer |
| Protecting against losses from employee theft, fraud.(medical offices) | Health | Michael J. Koszola |
| Push on to require minimum hospital stays after childbirth. | Health | |
| Researchers proposed a snuff fad, tobacco candy. | Health | |
| Research on embryonic development earns Nobel Prize. | Health | |
| Resources. (physician on-line discussion groups and Gopher sites for the Internet)(includes related article on books for beginners)(Directory) | Health | |
| Rethink how medical schools pick 'best' students.(Column) | Health | Sanford J. Brown |
| Retired, but not from medicine. (volunteering)(Editorial) | Health | |
| Reverse lobbying: what the legislators told physicians. | Health | |
| Salaries for employed physicians plateau, start to drop. (William M. Mercer Inc. survey) | Health | Greg Borso |
| Seize the opportunity to mobilize support for MSAs!(Medical Savings Accounts) | Health | Bert A. Loftman |
| Seniors may hold the wild card on Medicare reform. | Health | Lewis Page |
| Sexual assertiveness training promotes condom use.(article in the Journal of the American Medical Association) | Health | |
| Smoking wars invade restaurants. (Maryland ban on smoking in public buildings) | Health | |
| Sounding out silent PPOs could save practice plenty. (preferred provider organizations) | Health | Michael Hubner |
| South African health reforms threaten heart transplants. | Health | Peter MacPherson |
| Strategy session: AMA provides the forum for women physician leaders to address issues such as gender bias, mentoring, advocacy and professionalism in work settings.(American Medical Association)(Editorial) | Health | |
| Stronger nicotine patches help smokers quit - or not.(two studies in Journal of the American Medical Association show opposite results) | Health | |
| Study: fewer HIV-infected babies being born.(article by Susan F. Davis et al in the Journal of the American Medical Assn) | Health | |
| Study: patient wishes ignored as death approaches. (Study to Understand Prognoses and Preferences for Outcomes and Risks of Treatments) | Health | |
| Study: prescription misuse costs billions each year. | Health | |
| Supreme Court lets stand abortion access protection. | Health | |
| Surveys show public has mixed feelings about welfare. | Health | |
| Task force issues recommendations on lead poisoning. | Health | |
| Team effort: a new alliance between AMA and MGMA will lead to better advocacy for physicians in group practice. (American Medical Association, Medical Group Management Association)(Commentary)(Editorial) | Health | |
| Team leadership approach best for health care.(Column) | Health | Frederick J. Wenzel |
| The AMA's new address. (World Wide Web site on the Internet)(Editorial) | Health | |
| The IRS lays out five physician recruiting scenarios.(excerpt from proposed Internal Revenue Service regulations)(Transcript) | Health | |
| Thinking about a career change? Take it step by step. (physicians) | Health | Celia Paul |
| Tobacco's big breaks in Capitol. (regulation of tobacco products) (Editorial) | Health | |
| Tort reform.(American Medical Association's lobbying campaign)(Editorial) (Editorial) | Health | |
| Tort reform victory; organized medicine mobilized a grass-roots campaign for House vote; now on the Senate.(Column) | Health | |
| Variable annuities offer tax-deferred investment growth. | Health | P. Frank Castellon |
| Watch for bumps on road to consolidation/integration. | Health | Robert C. Bohlmann |
| Ways to make treating violence a part of your practice. | Health | Larry S. Goldman |
| We are telling Congress what Medicine needs.(message from AMA Board of Trustees chair P. John Seward)(Column) | Health | |
| Welcome.(American Medical Association's new Organized Medical Staff Section)(Editorial) | Health | |
| When did patient know sex was wrong? (malpractice suit filed against psychotherapist) (Medicolegal) | Health | |
| Who made medical specialists the bad guys in reform? (health care reform) (reprinted from Illinois Medicine) | Health | James Frakes |
| Who will shape medicine's future? Medical profession's strong voice needed to put patients before profits. (Editorial) | Health | |
| Yellow pages ads still valuable despite managed care.(physician advertising) | Health | Harriet Meyers |
| Young physician, welcome addition. (American Medical Association Board of Trustees new seat for young physician) (Editorial) | Health | |
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