Winter 2005
Volume 22 Number 1
Jump to the Alumni section: Stanford MD
The ticking time bomb: Health care in America
OK, you say you want a revolution
By Michelle L. Brandt
Just how bad does the U.S. health-care system have to get before Americans
step up to the plate and demand change? >> Read Story
Sidebar
1: U.S. health care's telling numbers
Sidebar
2: A walk through health-care reform history
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3: Groups working on health-care reform
Are we having a crisis yet?
The president's pollster talks about health care and the American voter
>> Read Story
Curing the crisis
Policy experts tell how they’d fix the U.S. health-care system
>> Read Story
And now for something completely different
A message to President Bush from a co-architect of the Clinton health
plan >> Read Story
Artless medicine
A physician’s view of a profession in crisis >> Read Story
Modern Medicare
Medicare’s boss says we’re right to be worried >> Read Story
What's up doc?
These days, doc doesn't always know >> Read Story
More Stanford Medicine
Letter
from the Dean
’Scope:
A quick look at the latest developments at Stanford University Medical
Center
Ask
the bioethicist: Final wish – Grappling with
end-of-life issues
Update:
Stem cell developments – Research set to take off
in California
Short
take: Small wonders – Babies with failing hearts
get to grow up after all
Feature:
The secret life of RNA – DNA’s helper is
a powerbroker in its own right. Who knew?
The
backstory: Talking with Anna Deavere Smith –
Raising the curtain on diversity
In
brief: Let's hear it for squeaky toys – Owl
study shows that early learning forever changes the brain's structure
Letter from SMAA President
Linda Hawes Clever, MD, '65
President, Stanford Medical Alumni Association
Changing and growing >> Read Letter
Alumni profile: Treating the tortured
Cynthia Willard launches a clinic for torture survivors in (of all places)
Utah >> Read Story
Class Notes
Catch up on the latest news about your classmates >> Read Story
