The lively art of conversation - on anything but medicine

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A group of Winchester, MA, physicians meets at a member's house every six weeks to listen to a speaker and have an informal discussion. The idea of the meetings, where medicine is the only topic off-limits, is to help the physicians get to know each other outside the hospital. The group also subscribes to the idea that a well-rounded person makes a better doctor. Topics have ranged from a four-part series on Japanese culture to Native American artifacts unearthed during construction of the Boston tunnel.

Social aspects

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Battling poverty's ills via medicine, politics and song

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Physician Gloria Jackson Bacon is executive medical director of the Clinic in Altgeld, a non-profit clinic serving the poor in a Chicago housing project. She also sings sacred music at clinic benefits, such as one at Chicago's Orchestra Hall. In addition, she is the first African-American member of the University of Illinois Board of Trustees. In this capacity, she advocates for better health care access for the Chicago's poor, and successfully fought the closing of the university's inner-city hospital.

Officials and employees, Social policy, Biography, University of Illinois, Bacon, Gloria Jackson

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Medicine, public health see mutual gains in plan to ally

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Private medical groups have historically opposed public health measures, but this divisive stand has changed. The Medicine/Public Health Initiative, started in 1993, promotes cooperation between the American Medical Assn, the American Public Health Assn and other groups such as state health departments and medical schools. M. Roy Schwarz, AMA vp, points to the need to recognize behavioral problems that affect health.

Administration of Public Health Programs, Physicians & Surgeons, Offices of Physicians (except Mental Health Specialists), Health Programs, Planning, History, Medical care, Political aspects, Public health, Preventive health services, Preventive medicine, Public health administration

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