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What the Doctor Ordered
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| Posted: Wednesday, May 7, 2008 |
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The real threat to medicine and the public interest is suppression of freedom of university-based researchers to interact with their scientific colleagues in the pharmaceutical industry.
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Transplant Tourism
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| Posted: Friday, May 2, 2008 |
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Many of the quandaries that plague transplant medicine flow from the need to ration scarce resources.
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Code Red
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| Posted: Tuesday, April 15, 2008 |
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The organ transplant list is approaching 100,000 patients, but the waitlist doesn't reflect the full scope of the problem.
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A Helping Hand for Vets
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| Posted: Tuesday, February 26, 2008 |
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Veterans diagnosed with major depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, or any other anxiety disorder stemming from military activity need to be treated as well as compensated.
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Science and Sorrow
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| Posted: Friday, February 8, 2008 |
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Psychiatry has transformed normal sorrow into depressive disorders due to the uncertainty of the true workings of the brain.
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Desperately Seeking a Kidney
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| Posted: Monday, December 17, 2007 |
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A personal story of heroic altruism (and the painful limits of altruism).
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In Praise of Stigma
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| Posted: Friday, December 28, 2007 |
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There are few behaviors more deserving of stigmatization than addiction.
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Mind Over Manual
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| Posted: Thursday, September 13, 2007 |
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Why aren't we closer to understanding the relationship between manifest illness and its underlying causes?
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Supply, Demand, and Kidney Transplants
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| Posted: Wednesday, August 1, 2007 |
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A bad incentive structure creates a dire shortage.
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Medical Misnomer
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| Posted: Thursday, July 26, 2007 |
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Addiction is not a brain disease, regardless of what Congress claims.
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