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Opportunities in the Indian Health Service: An Interview with Charles Q. North, MD, MS
Selected Interviews from the Coastal Research Group’s Studentdoctor.net website. This interview was conducted by William H. Burnett and first appeared 30 August, 2009. Students may not be aware of the variety of opportunities available within the Indian Health Service (IHS). To learn more about IHS and the volunteer, scholarship, and employment opportunities available, the Student Doctor Network recently [...]
Continue reading...Healthcare Reform: What can we really expect? – An Interview with David N. Sundwall, MD, MPH
5. January 2010
Selected Interviews from the Coastal Research Group’s Studentdoctor.net website. This interview was conducted by Laura Turner and first appeared 26 July, 2009 [Below: Doctor David N. Sundwall.] What do you think are the greatest issues facing the U.S. healthcare system today? “Cost” control, i.e. restraining the rate of growth of spending for health-care services. This is not unique to [...]
Continue reading...Health Care Policy & The Student Doctor: An Interview with Gary LeRoy, MD
4. January 2010
Selected Interviews from the Coastal Research Group’s Studentdoctor.net website. This interview was conducted by William H. Burnett and first appeared 7 May, 2008. SDN readers have responded favorably to our series of “20 Questions” asked of various health care professionals. With this interview of Dr. Gary LeRoy we launch a new series called “Health Care Policy and [...]
Continue reading...Evidence-Based Medicine: Is American medical care based on science or politics?
1. January 2010
Dr. Al Berg Selected Interviews from the Coastal Research Group’s Studentdoctor.net website. This interview was conducted by William H. Burnett and first appeared 27 September, 2009. Alfred O. Berg, MD, MPH, is a professor at the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Washington in Seattle. He is board certified in Family Medicine and General Preventive Medicine and [...]
Continue reading...Podcast: Doctor Philip Lee discussing the unintended consequences of the creation of Medicare and Medicaid
30. December 2009
At the Ninth National Conference on Primary Health Care Access, a panel was created in which three brothers, Doctors Philip R Lee, Peter V Lee and Hewlett Lee, all prominent in health care reform or health care education reform, made their first presentation together. They were introduced by Dr Peter Lee’s son, Peter, who later [...]
Continue reading...Josh Freeman, Hector Flores, Perry Pugno to Lead Off 21st National Conference on Primary Health Care Access With “What Just Happened?” Roundtable
5. December 2009
Even as the United States Senate debates health care reform legislation, three Fellows of the Coastal Research Group’s National Consortium on Community-Based Medical Education are preparing the lead-off roundtable discussion for the 21st National Conference on Primary Health Care Access, which begins April 12, 2010 at the Grand Hyatt Kaua’i. Doctors Joshua Freeman, Perry A. [...]
Continue reading...Colloquy: Joshua Freeman’s “Red, Blue, and Purple: The Math of Health Care Spending”
28. November 2009
[Editorial note: the leadoff panel at the Twenty-first National Conference on Primary Health Care Access will be moderated by and joined by Doctor Joshua Freeman on the Kansas University Medical Center in Kansas City. Recently, he posted this analysis of issues regarding the current health care reform legislation in Congress. Participants in the upcoming National [...]
Continue reading...Josh Freeman on the question of a national policy on the right to health care
24. October 2009
At the Twentieth National Conference on Primary Health Care Access in Monterey, California in April, 2008, Doctor Joshua Freeman was asked to respond to the question as to whether there should be a national policy establishing a basic right to health care. Josh spoke eloquently, and then posted his remarks on his weblog devoted to [...]
Continue reading...Twentieth National Conference on Primary Health Care Access in Monterey
18. March 2009
The Twentieth National Conference on Primary Health Care Access will be held at the Hyatt Regency Monterey from Monday, April 6 through Wednesday April 8, 2009. The Theme of the Twentieth National Conference will be “Primary Health Care Access, the American Medical System and Its Potential for Sudden Change”. (To go directly to the Twentieth National [...]
Continue reading...Forum on Health Care Reform: Doctor Allan Wilke’s Thoughts
3. February 2009
Editorial Note: The National Conferences on Primary Health Care Access on April 12-15, 2010 will conduct the Twenty-first National Conference in Koloa, Kaua’i. Doctor Allan Wilke (pictured below) of the University of Alabama’s medical school in Huntsville is a permanent member of the faculty of the National Conferences. His forum was launched after the election [...]
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6. January 2010
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