| American Medical News 1997 |
| Title | Subject | Authors |
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| 10-year-old mobile program brings care to destitute. (New York, NY's Children's Health Project) | Health | |
| 22 physicians seek posts on AMA councils, 15 seats open.(includes biographies) | Health | |
| Adolescent drug use up, as younger teens experimenting. (Public Health Service's 1996 survey finds increase in youths smoking cigarettes, marijuana) | Health | Christina Kent |
| Advice on when to treat a patient, report a colleague.(Ethics Forum)(Column) | Health | |
| Advocacy is key to the Resident Physicians Section. (American Medical Association group)(includes related article on Medicare reimbursement)(part 3) | Health | |
| A living legacy: AMA at 150 years. (American Medical Association)(Editorial) | Health | |
| Alzheimer's research: progress made, more needed.(includes related articles on drug therapy, algorithms, families of Alzheimer's patients) | Health | |
| AMA '97 legislative agenda speaks for you.(American Medical Association) | Health | |
| AMA delegates to consider board, council reports.(American Medical Association) | Health | |
| AMA launches Coalition for Tobacco-free Investments. (American Medical Association) | Health | |
| AMA poll: the more patients know, the less they want suicide aid. (American Medical Association) | Health | |
| AMA's big picture: annual strategic plan presents a useful look at AMA's mission, values and goals. (American Medical Association)(Editorial) | Health | |
| AMA's med students fight to protect student loans. (American Medical Association)(Column) | Health | Christopher R. Cogle |
| AMA: the way health care should be. (American Medical Association and standards for professional conduct)(Editorial) | Health | |
| AMA to feds: ERISA shouldn't protect against negligence.(Employee Retirement Income Act of 1974) | Health | Julie Johnson |
| A new way to be heard.(Women Physicians Congress of the American Medical Association)(Editorial) | Health | |
| An MSO at work - for physicians.(management service organization) | Health | Gerry Benedict, Brent Feorene |
| Antitrust worries mounting for Marshfield Clinic. | Health | Julie Johnson |
| A somewhat straighter PATH: this troubled Medicare audit program has been improved, but more changes are needed for it to operate fairly. (Physicians at Teaching Hospitals)(Editorial) | Health | |
| Assisted suicide's fate. (Supreme Court's rejection of right to assisted death allows doctors to improve practice)(includes excerpts from court's decisions)(Editorial) | Health | |
| Asymptomatic cases can use preventive medicine codes.(American Medical Association's Current Procedural Terminology) | Health | |
| 'Best Hospitals' ranking flawed; lack of adequate data cited. ("Americas Best Hospitals" rankings in U.S. News and World Reports) | Health | |
| Boston market shows doctors can succeed as employees. | Health | Jayne Oliva |
| Budget add-ons cloud status of health safety net. | Health | Stefanie Stapleton |
| Cancer patients warned of need to be good consumers. | Health | |
| Caring about care at the end of life. (American Medical Association efforts to prevent physician-assisted suicide)(Editorial) | Health | |
| Choosing up sides: doctors in Cleveland are scrambling to affiliate. (hospital systems competing for physicians; Cleveland, Ohio)(Markets in Transition) | Health | Ronni Scheier |
| Cleveland doctors size up potential partners. (Cleveland, Ohio)(Markets in Transition) | Health | Ronni Scheier |
| Clinical outcomes: the new driving force in health care. | Health | Raul A. Trillo Jr. |
| Close, but no cigar.(AMA response to tobacco industry settlement)(Editorial) | Health | |
| Closing the ERISA loophole. (Employee Retirement Income Security Act)(Editorial) | Health | |
| Coding, payment on resolution agenda for delegates.(American Medical Association House of Delegates) | Health | |
| 'Collective guilt': this summer - under the steady gaze of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission - South Africa's medical community took a hard look at its own performance during the dark decades of apartheid.(includes related articles) | Health | David Goodman |
| Commitment to quality starts with measuring performance. (physicians and their staffs) | Health | Judy Capko, Rebecca Anwar |
| Computer security doesn't have to be a practice nightmare.(computers and medical practice) | Health | Harry Garcia |
| Congress accelerates fraud and abuse juggernaut. (incentives, authority expanded for investigators of Medicare, Medicaid practices)(Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996; part 1)(Column) | Health | Thomas S. Crane, Evan Slavitt |
| Congress may exempt special needs kids from Medicaid HMOs. | Health | Stefanie Stapleton |
| Coping with the unhealthful side of medicine.(productivity requirements) | Health | Elizabeth R. Hatcher |
| Crash course in advocacy. (Russian physicians consider organized medicine) | Health | Nina Sandlin |
| Dangerous path. (federal audits of Medicare payments)(Editorial) | Health | |
| Deadline near for electronic payment of payroll taxes.(Column) | Health | Rita M. Schwager |
| Despite late challenges, teen tobacco control starting now. (Food and Drug Administration's ban on sales takes effect in February 1997) | Health | Alicia Ault Barnett |
| Dilemma seen in conflict of economics, medical needs. (new national agency may be needed to protect medical care standards from hazards of commercial pressures) | Health | |
| Discrimination by DNA. (physicians should advocate for protections against misuse of genetic information)(Editorial) | Health | |
| Doctors urge more emphasis on addiction care, prevention. | Health | Wayne Hearn |
| Doctor takes trip to Baltimore's mean streets. (Peter Beilenson, Maryland city's health commissioner, tests drug-treatment programs as disguised addict) | Health | Lynne Lamberg |
| Do the P's in PPM stand for 'promises, promises'? (physician practice management firms)(part 1) | Health | Albert E. Barnett |
| Drunk drivers in Hawaii may be released to police; emergency doctors must report blood alcohol levels. | Health | Randal Josten |
| Dual-eligible duel. (American Medical Association, state societies seek Medicaid compensation for doctors)(Editorial) | Health | |
| Early discharge boosts newborn's risk of rehospitalization. | Health | |
| Elderly living longer - with a better quality of life. | Health | |
| Enzyme level after angioplasty predictor of outcome. (study finds higher death rate among patients with high creatine kinase levels) | Health | |
| Estrogen must be continued to maintain benefits. | Health | |
| Euthanasia down under; first deaths under new Australian law heighten controversy over measure. ("The Rights of the Terminally Ill Act", 1996) | Health | Darryl Johnston |
| Factors to consider in making OB discharge decisions. (obstetrics)(Column) | Health | Linda Bresolin |
| Feds: prescribe pot, face prosecution. (medical marijuana) | Health | Christina Kent |
| Female heart patients often have high LDL, despite drugs. ("bad" cholesterol) | Health | |
| Few domestic violence victims look for medical help. | Health | |
| Finding people. (Internet directories offer help in locating individuals)(includes related article about online directories of physicians) | Health | |
| Five doctors indicted in Medicare home care scam.(includes related article) | Health | Rachel Kreier |
| Focus on detail pays off in additional tax deductions. | Health | Karen S. Schechter, Cathy Goldsticker |
| Forum debuts to answer your questions on ethics. (patient, physicians ask about romantic involvements, shortening patient stays, clinical studies) | Health | |
| Fraud audit. (minimizing the risk of health care fraud audits in the health care industry) | Health | Marc S. Raspanti, Bruce Goldstein |
| From examination room to executive suite. (doctors making transition to healthcare industry executive positions)(includes a related article on career paths) | Health | Anne Stein |
| Getting the right employee is half the battle. (medical practice employees) | Health | Barry Eisenberg |
| Gingko extract shown to ease dementia. | Health | |
| Global connection: the AMA's reach extends to physicians, and patients, throughout the world.(American Medical Association)(Editorial) | Health | |
| Gulf War illness sorted into 3 syndromes. | Health | |
| Gun ownership tied to higher risk for women's murder, suicide. (study identifies firearms as leading cause of violent death inside households) | Health | |
| Here comes the sun.(includes related article on the importance of sunglasses) | Health | Alice Ault |
| HMO must cover high-dose chemotherapy treatment. (Mattive v. Health Source of Savannah Inc.)(Medicolegal Decisions) | Health | |
| Hormone therapy boosts postmenopausal life expectancy. (women's health care) | Health | |
| Hospice, tort reform among topics for state, specialty groups.(state and specialty medical groups) | Health | |
| Hospital has corporate liability for staff privileges. (Oklahoma facility appeals jury's verdict in negligence case involving newborn's death) | Health | |
| How confidential is the communications superhighway? (maintaining confidentiality in physician-patient relationship)(Column) | Health | Steve L. Salman, Joe F. Wright |
| How to develop an effective staff job evaluation plan.(part 2) | Health | Robert Solomon |
| Human factor is key consideration in device design. (medical systems and devices) | Health | Richard Stahlhut, John Gosbee |
| If it's time to get out, who will buy your practice? (medical practice)(Column) | Health | Daniel M. Bernick |
| Informed investing.(physician investments in medical operations) | Health | Lisa Kaderabek |
| In medicine too: what goes around comes around.(Column) | Health | Charles G. Hess |
| In our 150th year, an agenda that speaks for you.(American Medical Association's Project New Focus)(includes related article on planned celebrations) | Health | |
| Intentional food contamination a cause for concern. | Health | |
| Internists push groups to merge. | Health | Lindo O. Prager |
| Iraqi biological weapons still considered a threat. | Health | |
| Is new billing system needed to survive managed care? | Health | Karen S. Schechter |
| It pays to have the right people doing the right jobs in the right way. (labor expenses in medical practice) | Health | Barry Eisenberg |
| It's time to treat smoking like a vital sign - and ask. (doctors should take lead in advocating treatment of tobacco addiction)(includes list of available guidelines)(Column) | Health | Michael Fiore |
| JAMA launches asthma information site on the Web. (Journal of the American Medical Association posts facts on World Wide Web) | Health | |
| Land of (too much) opportunity. (federal government should curtail funding for training for foreign medical residency students)(Editorial) | Health | |
| Language for leadership.(American Medical Association's Vision)(Editorial) | Health | |
| Leasing can put your practice in tune with technology. | Health | Jean Brooks |
| Leaving a mark on medicine.(American Medical Association)(Editorial) | Health | |
| Liability limited under Mich.'s consumer protection law. (court rules that statute only applies to physicians for business-related claims) | Health | Eric Freedman |
| Limousine medicine: When is it time to hit the brakes? (United States faces inevitable conflict over medical care's cost, access)(Column) | Health | Eric Anderson |
| Loss of smell tied to nutritional, immune issues. | Health | |
| Made in China.(medical problems of adopted Chinese infants) (includes related article on pediatrician adopting Chinese children) | Health | Pam Brick |
| Marshfield vindicated. (Blue Cross Blue Shield United of Wisconsin case against Marshfield Clinic)(Editorial) | Health | |
| Medicaid managed care: chaos reigns supreme.(Column) | Health | |
| Medical community questions theory on sex reassignment. (transforming infant boy into girl following loss of penis raises difficulties later) | Health | |
| Medical mistakes: what your patients think.(Editorial) | Health | |
| Medicare among top concerns of voters; views differ by age. | Health | |
| Medicare transformation. (American Medical Association develops a plan to restructure Medicare)(Editorial) | Health | |
| Memory recovered - or invented: U.S. brings criminal charges against Texas doctors, others in repressed memory treatment. | Health | Sarah A. Klein |
| Move to capitation can bring rewards, risks to specialists. (specialists that are paid flat amount per month per member)(Column) | Health | Jeremy N. Miller |
| NASA, AMA join in bringing space medicine home. (American Medical Association) | Health | Nina Sandlin |
| Nation must face organ donation in a meaningful way.(Column) | Health | Robert M. Jr. Tenery |
| Nation's TB cases decline to lowest point since '50s.(tuberculosis, 1950s) | Health | |
| Nine physicians vie for seats on Board of Trustees. (American Medical Association) | Health | |
| N.J. doctors ask to form union, say they're 'HMO employees'.(health maintenance organizations) | Health | Sarah A. Klein |
| Occupational therapy helps seniors live healthier lives. | Health | |
| Osteoporosis.(includes related article) | Health | Delia O'Hara |
| Overall plan avoids compensation chaos as practices merge. (physicians' practices)(part 1) | Health | Robert Solomon |
| Parents' biggest needs from doctors: honesty, sensitivity. | Health | Don Weinhouse, Marilyn Weinhouse |
| Parents spell out most wanted qualities of professionals. (excerpt from "Little Children, Big Needs") | Health | Don Weinhouse, Marilyn Weinhouse |
| Per-capita caps leave providers leery; limits once seen as preferable to Medicaid block grants, but are they needed now? | Health | Stephanie Staleton |
| Physician reflects on prolonged dying of the elderly.(Column) | Health | Tony Miksanek |
| Physicians seek specifics of opioid use guidelines. (how doctors should prescribe treatment for patients with chronic pain) | Health | |
| Physicians sometimes forget basic good manners. (examples of mistreatment, arrogance illustrate why public perceives doctors unfavorably)(Column) | Health | Eric G. Anderson |
| Playing patient.(using actors to portray patients in medical education)(includes related articles) | Health | Janice Rosenberg |
| Playing the patenting game. | Health | Joseph N. Hosteny |
| Policy prescription for HIV. (American Medical Association supports bill requiring reporting, contact tracing in HIV infection cases)(Editorial) | Health | |
| Politicians' health: what the public needs to know. | Health | |
| Practice needs, personal needs? AMA offers solutions. (American Medical Association creates company to service medical groups, doctors) | Health | |
| Prenatal and early childhood home visits do lasting good. | Health | |
| Prevent staff turnover before it erodes your practice. (medical practice)(Column) | Health | Cathy Goldsticker, Rita Schwager |
| Psychiatrist disciplined over 'depossession therapy.' (West Virginia's Supreme Court returns case to Board of Medicine) | Health | |
| Quality projects can hold key to competitive success. | Health | Linda Prager |
| Reefer candidness. (medical use of marijuana)(Editorial) | Health | |
| Regrouping onto focused factories.(hospitals and medical practices) | Health | Greg Borzom |
| Revolutionary breast cancer treatments under study. | Health | |
| Right to assisted suicide may undermine end-of-life care. | Health | |
| Round 2. (federal repeal of physician safeguards)(Editorial) | Health | |
| Ruling means 'corporate liability' applies to hospitals. (Pennsylvania Supreme Court finds hospital responsible for supervising staff, patient care) | Health | |
| Setting the record straight about the AMAP initiative. (American Medical Accreditation Program)(Column) | Health | Gary F. Kreiger |
| Solid action plan can counter search warrant shock.(Perspectives on Search and Seizure) | Health | Rebekah J. Poston |
| Some blood donors may hide risks. (1.9% of blood donors admitted to having risk factors at time of donation in confidential survey) | Health | |
| Speech-recognition software improves, gains recognition. | Health | Eric Fishman |
| Spirit of service.(volunteerism and physicians)(Editorial) | Health | |
| Standing up for ethics.(excerpt from "Caring for the Country: A History and Celebration of the First 150 Year of the American Medical Association") | Health | Dick Walt |
| Strong advocacy made 1996-97 one of the AMA's best years.(American Medical Association) | Health | |
| Strong blow to tobacco. (court upholds FDA regulation of tobacco products)(Editorial) | Health | |
| Structure your group with possibility of sale in mind. | Health | Jodi Laurence, Mike Segal |
| Study shows benefits of circumcision are limited. | Health | |
| Survival of the specialist; creating a specialty IPA.(independent physician association) | Health | Maryann Szostak-Ricardo |
| Surviving in style in a changing business environment.(physicians' business acumen)(Column) | Health | Ken E. Mack |
| Taking pulse of profession, public: managed care, end-of-life treatment among topics in AMA poll. (American Medical Association) | Health | |
| Taking your practice to new organizational heights. (managing medical group restructuring)(Column) | Health | Judy Capko, Tom Lyman |
| Tax law changes affect value of physician practices. | Health | Sam A. Mawn-Mahlau |
| Ten steps to better service. (medical practice) | Health | Susan Keane Baker |
| The frustration of not connecting with a scared patient. (first-year resident physician struggles to help low-income population)(Column) | Health | Lisa E. Moore |
| There are simply some things we should not know. (medical knowledge)(Column) | Health | Tim Wolter |
| They err, you pay. (physicians asked to return money paid to them erroneously)(Editorial) | Health | |
| Three leaders seek top AMA posts. (American Medical Association) | Health | |
| Thrombolytic therapy underused in elderly patients. | Health | |
| Thyroid research published after controversial delay. (Knoll Pharmaceutical Co. sought to squelch results concerning Synthroid medication) | Health | |
| Time for changes in RBRVS, HMO rates. (resource-based relative value scale; Health Maintenance Organizations) | Health | Susan McIlrath |
| Tobacco-free investing. (53 mutual funds listed by American Medical Association Coalition for Tobacco-free Investments)(Editorial) | Health | |
| Tobacco suits best fought at state levels, authors say.(commentary in Journal of the American Medical Association) | Health | |
| Tracking costs of providing care under managed care. | Health | Eric S. Holzberg |
| Transplant survival rates up; waiting list also increasing.(1996 U.S. Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients and the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network report) | Health | |
| Triple-drug therapy may boost ovarian cancer survival. | Health | |
| Turmoil in Tucson. (physicians at Thomas-Davis Medical Centers P.C. battle owners FPA Medical Management Inc.) | Health | Jane Erikson |
| UCLA study: L.A. County should revamp health system. | Health | |
| We need 'a real, bread-and-butter' commitment.(Editorial) | Health | Nancy Dickey |
| When restrictions become restraints. (restrictive covenants)(Column) | Health | |
| Working on ways to define quality. | Health | Thomas R. Reardon |
| Wyo. limited licensure law declared unconsitutional.(Mental Health Professions Practice Act) | Health | |
| Your advocate in court. (American Medical Association legal activity)(Editorial) | Health | |
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