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On Presence and Courage: Penn State/Hershey Faculty Family Doc Volunteers in Haiti
The following letter that Professor N. Benjamin Frederick, a family physician at Penn State/Hershey Medical Center, wrote to Penn State medical students, begins a new series on the Coastal Research Group website on primary care physicians and other health personnel, who contribute their time in service to those in need. On Presence and Courage:…
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Evidence-Based Medicine and the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute: An Update of an Interview with Alfred O. Berg, MD, MPH
William H. Burnett, Coastal Research Group: In my last interview with you, conducted on behalf of the Student Doctor Network [see Evidence-Based Medicine: Is American medical care based on science or politics?], you described the role of the US Public Health Services advisory committees, and also the role of the Institute of Medicine in…
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Activities of the Fellows and Senior Fellows of the Coastal Research Group: Dr John Geyman Leads Forces of Dissent Against PPACA (Chapter 2: Affordability)
As the process of implementing 2010’s federal health care legislation proceeds (see The Implementation Plan for the Patient Protection and Affordable Care and Education Reconciliation Act), debate on the wisdom of the legislation itself continues. One of the most articulate of the dissenters, whose analytical work has been widely quoted in the press, on television,…
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Activities of the Fellows and Senior Fellows of the Coastal Research Group: Dr John Geyman Leads Forces of Dissent Against PPACA (Chapter 1: Cost Containment)
As the process of implementing 2010’s federal health care legislation proceeds (see The Implementation Plan for the Patient Protection and Affordable Care and Education Reconciliation Act), debate on the wisdom of the legislation itself continues. One of the most articulate of the dissenters, whose analytical work has been widely quoted in the press, on television,…
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Activities of the Fellows and Senior Fellows of the Coastal Research Group: Bruce Behringer's Testimony to U. S. Senate Special Committee on Aging
In this new feature, of the Coastal Research Group website, we will highlight some of the important activities, in which the Fellows and Senior Fellows of the Coastal Research Group and the National Consortium on Community-Based Medical Education are engaged. Last month, Bruce A. Behringer, a Coastal Research Group fellow, testified before the United States…
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Healthcare Reform: What can we really expect? – An Interview with David N. Sundwall, MD, MPH
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…