Two members of the UCD faculty recently published an article about preferential admissions in the October 8 issue of JAMA. Profs Robert Davidson and Ernest Lewis reported that their 20-year study proved that preferential admission policies are harmless–that they do not affect the quality of the doctors who graduate. Gail Heriot, a law professor at […]

The November 1952 issue of Sacramento Medicine illustrates that practice issues, just as today, were of major concern. The lead article was written at the request of the editorial board concerning the handling of professional collections. John Collins, manager of a credit bureau, discusses the controversy around the recovery of professional accounts. It has long […]

Programming Minds: The magazine Civilization reports the uncivilized results of subliminal messages on your TV screen and what can now be done about them. These 2-3/32 second scenes are oftentimes responsible for violence. For instance, in Tokyo, the photograph of cult leader Shoko Asahara that flashed across the screen during a national cartoon broadcast was […]

Sen Paul Wellstone, former Carleton College professor who represents Minnesota has been promoting his image by courting groups such as the Children’s Defense Fund. However, he gutted the proposal by Sen Jeff Sessions who represents Alabama to limit attorney fees in the tobacco settlement to $250 per hour with leftover billions going for research on […]

Considerable space in this issue is given to legal aspects of the adoption process. This was a continuation of the article started in the Sept 1952 issue. There were also several pages on infant mortality and child health. Among the various hospital reports, Sacramento County Hospital announce, in addition to their night courses for aspiring […]

As the cost of health care jettisoned out of sight, something had to give. Managed care organizations sprung up and convinced the insurance companies that they could manage the insured patient’s benefits and even save the insurance company more money than their fee for the service. They would charge 15 percent for this and save […]

Not to optimally relieve pain is tantamount to moral and legal malpractice according to Dr Edmund Pellegrino in the May 20, 1998, issue of the Journal of the AMA. New York’s Governor George Pataki has signed a bill eliminating much of the red tape doctors encounter as they prescribe painkillers for severely ill patients. Doctors […]

The theater has been called the fabulous invalid because for a least half a century it has been described as dying. Broadway, the legendary “great white way” of the state, was labeled as doomed when talking picture came upon the scene. When television developed into the nation’s most popular theatrical form, the prophets of doom […]

The Board of Directors was asked to give its opinion on society members listing their names, addresses, and telephone numbers in directories other than Sacramento. The Board felt this procedure is not in good taste and is a discourtesy to physicians of other communities where the listing would appear. An inquiry was made if any […]

Where did the runaway health care costs originate? Why did the government and the business world get so involved in reducing costs? Where was the high-cost center that precipitated all this? Who was the culprit? Hospital charges were so exorbitant that the government’s best efforts to control Medicare and Medicaid costs were to implement the […]