June 2010 - Health Beat

  • One Family’s Story

    I urge everyone to read “What Broke My Father’s Heart” in the Sunday New York Times Magazine, a superb first-person narrative by Kay Butler http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/20/magazine/20pacemaker-t.html?ref=magazine Butler describes how our money-driven...
  • A Salute to the VA on Memorial Day—Part 1

    In 2007, a book by Phillip Longman sent lasting ripples through the U.S. health care establishment. The title was audacious: Best Care Anywhere. But it was the subtitle that shocked: Why VA Healthcare is Better than Yours. Was Longman suggesting... Read...