Lawton Burns Receives Academy of Management's Distinguished Scholar Award
“Science has delivered solutions. The question for the world is: When will we put it into practice?”
In the mid-eighties, I coordinated a medical genetics clinic at Johns Hopkins Hospital. We shared our outpatient unit, the Moore Clinic, with the AIDS Care Program, which began in 1984. Every week, I would see the devastating and shockingly rapid decline of robust young men—men my age—in the waiting room outside my office. I came to recognize the pattern: two men would walk in, one weaker, one stronger.
Nursing in a Transformed Health Care System: New Roles, New Rules
Although the supply of nurses is likely to meet overall demand, the nature of a nurse’s job is changing dramatically as nurses assum expanded roles in redesigned health care systems for a broad range of patients in ambulatory settings and community-based care.
Primary Care Shortages: More Than a Head Count
The existence of a primary care physician shortage, even prior to the ACA, is not universally accepted. A new report by the Institute on Medicine found “no credible evidence” that the nation faces a looming physician shortage in primary care specialties. There is greater consensus about a maldistribution of physicians, in terms of specialty, geography, and practice settings.
An Overview of Israel's Universal Health Care System
Lawton Burns' New Book on Health Care in India
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