Tag Archive: film

Money-Driven Medicine, the documentary, available on the web

Source: Bill Moyers Journal Maggie Mahar announced today (on her Health Beat blog) that the documentary of her book, Money-Driven Medicine , will be available for free ...

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Doctors in the trenches speak out – Part three

Source: Bill Moyers Journal Here's the third and last installment from the documentary Money-Driven Medicine. The topics this time focus on the financial issues of health care: Insurance premiums, competitive hospitals, the control of medicine by profit-driven corporations, the disconnect ...

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Doctors in the trenches speak out – Part two

Source: Bill Moyers Journal Here's a second installment from the documentary Money-Driven Medicine. The producer, Alex Gibney, is an Oscar-winning filmmaker (Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room). ...

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Doctors in the trenches speak out – Part One

Source: Bill Moyers Journal I grow weary of the politics of health care reform. Powerful interest groups buy the politicians. The need to get re-elected takes precedence over the national interest. Paul Krugman writes: "Actually turning this country around is ...

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The Sicko files

Source: Bill Moyers Journal Wendell Potter, who was once the head of Public Relations at health insurance giant CIGNA, recently testified before Congress on the nefarious practices of the insurance industry. Last Friday he did an extended interview with Bill Moyers. In ...

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Health Culture Daily Dose #6

In today's Dose: Health care reform (Congressionional Budget Office numbers; Why Maggie Mahar isn't worried; Kevin MD, Daniel Callahan) Foodborne illness (Cookie dough) Industrialized agriculture (Food Inc.) The risk society (Jodi Picoult novels) Health care reform A recent Ezra Klein Klein column in the Washington Post discussed the bad news this ...

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What's wrong with our food?

A new movie, Food, Inc., will be in theaters starting June 12. The film documents how industrialized agriculture has changed the food we eat and explores the impact of this change on health, food safety, and the environment. In the movie's trailer (see below), a woman ...

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Gupta vs. Sicko: Are there socially acceptable mistakes?

Among those opposing Obama's choice of Sanjay Gupta as the next Surgeon General is Adrian Campbell, a Michigan woman who appeared in Michael Moore's film Sicko. Gupta told his television audience: In Canada, you can be waiting for a long time. A survey of six industrialized nations found that only Canada was worse than ...

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Ich Habe Genug on Thanksgiving

It's Thanksgiving and I'm feeling 'Ich habe genug' (I have enough). I'd like to share some poetry, music, and a film while continuing the 'death' theme of my last blog post. First the film, Wit, starring Emma Thompson and directed by Mike Nichols. It's the story of ...

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Are Americans naive about medicine?

Despite a growing dissatisfaction with the doctor/patient relationship, does our traditional respect for the medical profession leave us susceptible to disease mongering?

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