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The importance of words, two sides of dual practice, baby boomers’ role in health care, and questions about Congress and health care
Words Make a Difference Sonoma Medicine devotes the summer issue to Cross Cultural Medicine. This article, “Care in Translation,” is by Rick Flinders, MD. Don Felipe was one of the campesinos I got to know best during the two years I lived in South America. He was short and dark-eyed and was one of the wisest farmers among […]
Why we need to strengthen and expand Medicare, and what it means to be a physician
Health Reform? Build on our History. Stephen Kamelgarn, MD, Editor of The Bulletin of the Humboldt-Del Norte County Medical Society gives us his changing views of single payer healthcare in the February 2009 issue. His article is entitled, “Can We Get There from Here? Should we Listen to our History?” Over the years I’ve written a number […]
What doctors were writing about a half century ago
What doctors were writing about a half century ago. The Yesteryear column during 1997 gave brief monthly reviews of what happened years ago in our medical society. Although our society was established in 1868, the written record occurred some 82 years later. The official publication of our society began in September, 1950 as “The Bulletin.” […]
Death of the medical autopsy; DOs in primary care; stress and the President’s brain?
Remember the Autopsy? Dr. Scott Sattler discusses “Medical Autopsy: The Forgotten Teacher” in the March 2009 issue of the Humboldt-Del Norte County Medical Society Bulletin. Remember when we used to do autopsies on other than just coroner’s cases? When I trained at Valley Medical Center in San Jose in the 1960s and 70s, essentially every hospital […]
A doctor’s first novel, memories of a grandmother, caring for Pakistani earthquake victims
A Blockbuster First Novel Stephen Jackson, MD, editor of the CSA Bulletin, reviews a book in the Fall 2008 issue: OXYGEN, by Carol Wiley Cassella, MD, an anesthesiologist in private practice with the Virginia Mason group in Seattle. …I strongly urge each of you to read Oxygen, especially because it examines in great depth the gamut of the […]
Electronic Medical Records have some advantages; and anesthetizing an orangutan
Before and After EMR Lee Leer, MD, discusses “EMR From the Trenches” in In My Opinion, from the Humboldt-Del Norte County Medical Society Bulletin. Much has been written lately about Electronic Medical Records (EMR’s). Some of the authors have even spent a bit of time working with an EMR. Many authors are not particularly positive though […]