I16 Proceedings

4/3/2017

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Health Policy Commission Lowers Cost Benchmark

3/31/2017

is holding a 10-month program at no tuition cost. Registration is now open for the program beginning in May … will be sharing their experiences. The free luncheon will take place on Tuesday, May 23rd from Noon – 2:00 p.m … in an educational experience in Cuba, May 20 – 24, 2017. Deadline for reservations is May 1, 2017 For more …

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Vital Signs April 2017 (pdf)

3/30/2017

, or point of view that may be offered. The MMS expressly disclaims any representations as to the accuracy …. Topics in- clude how to make guns less ac- cessible to children or others who may experience behavioral … health challenges; how to dispose of unwanted firearms; and how to respond when a gun owner may …

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Lengthening Shadows

3/29/2017

, which has been banished from Germany, Ireland, and Scotland, may soon be epidemic in New York and raise …, and may well have been the first documented case of the later well-known Meigs' syndrome. Mortality … mentioned transactions may be better worth reading than we had hitherto imagined." A paper in the Journal …

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Unproved Hypotheses

3/29/2017

a great deal of art. Some of our colleagues may believe that the major factor of success in practice … is our primary concern but that varying degrees of art may be needed in the practical dispensing of our …, may be due essentially to lack of adequate attention to the art of medicine, largely related …

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The New Medical-Industrial Complex

3/29/2017

and attempt to show how the new medical-industrial complex may be affecting our health-care system. A final … they have to pay out of their own pockets, patients who are sick or worried that they may be sick … to achieve these objectives? In an ideal free competitive market, private enterprise may be good …

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Trends in Medical Education

3/29/2017

may convert university schools of medicine to trade schools that would prepare physicians for practice … to the formulation of a more penetrating question. Call this the "scientific method" if you wish. However that may be … is acceptable if it means that the time allotted to his colleagues is cut in order that he may have more …

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Swinging Copy and Sober Science

3/29/2017

and enjoys the largest number of voluntary paying subscribers. The practices of your Journal may thus …, the advertiser may not even try. In my brief two years as the Journal's editor, I am unaware of any attempts … pharmaceutical houses themselves, warrant total condemnation. It may even be questioned if the advertiser would …

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Don't Eat the Quails

3/29/2017

that the controversial cancer drug, Laetrile, may be nothing more than a slow reacting, sublethal dose of such amygdalin … of enzyme metabolism may have been present in the victims and predisposed to a fatal outcome. Turning … may be far out of proportion to the actual incidence of the disease at that time. Many reasons …

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The Physician in a Changing Social Structure

3/29/2017

that supports these remarks, which to some may sound like fearful rubbish or a misinterpretation of recent … be necessary to maintain membership. The Vermont State Medical Society considered similar action on May 13 … of Delegates advanced this policy in what may prove to be a historic action by accepting the report …

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