After 12 years of not-very-benign neglect, the time has finally come to pass some of the
legislation that has been bogged down. Much of the early part of the first session of …

In a 1992 report, 1 the Council on Graduate Medical Education concluded that deficiencies
in the physician work force, the medical-education system, and public policy would hinder …

A Shift on the Front Line Dressed in the protective gear, you feel like a soldier about to jump
from a plane, hoping your parachute will open. As the hours go by, made longer by thirst …

I'm gonna live fast, love hard, die young, and leave a beautiful memory.[Country and
Western Song Title] The Health-Care System This is the era of the health-care system …

HE United States operates a health care system that is unique among nations. It is the most
expensive of systems, outstripping by over half again the health care expenditures of any …

TRAGICALLY, ONE OF THE NATION'S MOST REMARK-able accomplishments is in
jeopardy. The United States has the world's finest fabric of medical research, education, and …

Our health care system is failing. Tens of millions of people are uninsured, costs are
skyrocketing, and the bureaucracy is expanding. Patchwork reforms succeed only in …

Cheesecake Factory with my two teen-age daughters and three of their friends. You may
know the chain: a hundred and sixty restaurants with a catalogue-like menu that, when I did …

The author reviews the fundamental changes that have taken place in the US health care
system since 1935, predicts what that system will be like in the early part of the next century …

In 1985, I published an editorial entitled" Medicine—A Profession in Trouble?" 1
Unfortunately, in 1990 the question mark has come off. While we have made progress on …