The Family Doctor, Minus the M.D.

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/24/the-family-doctor-minus-the-m-d

Tina Rosenberg

The New York Times

24 October 2012

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Thousands of clinics in America have no doctors. The primary care providers are nurse-practitioners – and their results are as good or better than that of the doctors.

A Hospital Network With a Vision

https://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/01/16/in-india-leading-a-hospital-franchise-with-vision

Tina Rosenberg

The New York Times

16 January 2013

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Twelve million people are blind in India, and are robbed of their livelihoods as a result. A hugely successful chain of cataract hospitals in India helped its business by treating half its patients for free.

San Francisco Is Changing Face of AIDS Treatment

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/06/health/san-francisco-hiv-aids-treatment.html

Donald G. McNeil Jr.

The New York Times

5 October 2015

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The H.I.V. infection rate in San Francisco dropped drastically after the city increased testing and created programs like Rapid, which immediately offer public health insurance, antiretroviral drugs, and personal counselors for people with AIDS.

For Many, a Life-Saving Drug Out of Reach

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/22/for-many-a-life-saving-drug-out-of-reach

Maia Szalavitz

The New York Times

22 September 2011

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According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, drug overdoses are the leading cause of injury-related mortality. Naxolone, a drug used to revive overdose victims, is only available by prescription. However, private organizations have distributed Naxolone kits nationally, showing that the drug can save lives when it is more readily accessible.

For some, prenatal care is a community affair

https://www.pri.org/stories/2014-06-18/some-prenatal-care-community-affair

Shuka Kalantari

Public Radio International (PRI)

18 June 2014

Radio / 3-5 Minutes

Latin American women in San Francisco have suffered from post-partum depression, social isolation, and chronic stress at the time of their pregnancies. Run by midwives, the Centering Pregnancy program at the San Francisco General Hospital provides patient-centered care, an environment to speak in Spanish, and a nurturing community for women’s group appointments. The results boast fewer c-sections and pre-term births, and an improvement in emotional support and overall prenatal health.

Reducing emergency room use by targeting 'super utilizers'

http://www.baltimoresun.com/health/maryland-health/bs-hs-super-utilizer-20150916-story.html

Meredith Cohn

The Baltimore Sun

29 September 2015

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Residents who use a disproportionate amount of health care, or super utilizers, are a high cost for the system. A hospital in Baltimore is following the example of other hospitals and focusing on the underlying problems of super utilizers to reduce emergencies and save costs.

Making a Medicine as Easy to Find as a Can of Coke

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/07/03/making-medicine-as-easy-to-get-as-a-can-of-coke

Sarika Bansal

The New York Times

3 July 2013

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A project to take advantage of Coca-Cola’s famous global reach designed a kit of basic medicines that fit in between Coke bottles. But it turned out that what it needed to be copying wasn’t Coke’s package delivery, but it’s investment in the people in its supply chain.

In S. King County, an extraordinary effort to bring better health

http://www.seattletimes.com/pacific-nw-magazine/in-s-king-county-an-extraordinary-effort-to-bring-better-health/?syndication=rss

Abigail Higgins

The Seattle Times

25 April 2014

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In S. King County, Wash., the organization Global to Local identified Seattle's ironic status as being a global-health center but having an increasingly unhealthy populace. Global to Local pointed local citizens to a variety of services, using a "connect the dots" approach to treatment.

The Power to Cure, Multiplied

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/06/11/the-doctor-will-stream-to-you-now

David Bornstein

The New York Times

11 June 2014

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Project ECHO - driven by a single doctor with a cause - pulled together a team of specialists to develop a model that combines technology with collaborative care and careful patient tracking to help cure for diseases spread to patients around the world through community healthcare agents, as opposed to only specialty centers. This kind of "disruptive innovation" is effectively working to demonopolize health care knowledge and access, and lends to a health system capable of meeting today’s soaring demands for care.

A great match – college grads who want medical experience and clinics that have needs

http://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/education/article86470412.html

Grayson Logue

The News & Observer

28 June 2016

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Many medical students forgo a career as a primary care physician for a specialist position, creating a shortage of primary care. North Carolina has created a fellowship program called MedServe that inspires medical students to partake in a career in primary care. MedServe places medical students in clinics for low-income communities so that they can provide more personal attention, which has shown to encourage students to embark on the primary care path.