Urology Experts & Viewpoints

A Market for Compassion: Single-Payer Health Insurance Prajwal Ciryam, second-year MD/PhD student at Northwestern University and Co-Founding Member of Health Care for All Illinois, explains why an American single-payer system is right.
Commentary, September 2008
Why Should I Report an Adverse Drug Event? Individual clinicians can play a vital role in detecting potentially serious adverse drug events -- and the safety of our drug supply depends on them.
Expert Column, August 2008
Retooling for an Aging America Harvey V. Fineberg, MD, President, Institute of Medicine, Washington, DC, discusses the impact of the "baby boomer" generation on medicine.
Commentary, August 2008
Eating Right After Surgery -- Tricky or Treat? Commentary on a study about whether eating right after surgery is safe, published May 2008 in the Archives of Surgery.
Commentary, August 2008
Physicians for Sale: How Medical Professional Organizations Exploit Their Members To improve the state of US healthcare, physicians need to rethink what their profession is and identify what they need to do to regain their professional integrity.
Commentary, July 2008
Building Physician Connectivity for e-Prescribing Kevin Hutchinson, President and Chief Executive Officer of Prematics, Inc., in Vienna, Virginia, tells us how to move e-prescribing forward.
Expert Interview, July 2008
New Therapeutic Options for Metastatic Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer: The Latest Data From ASCO 2008 In this expert interview, Dr. Susan Slovin highlights new findings from ASCO 2008 and discusses key challenges facing clinicians who manage patients with castration-resistant prostate cancer.
Expert Interview, July 2008
A Reply to Thomas Stossel on the AMA-CEJA Draft Report Rebuttal to Stossel's 12 June commentary responding to CEJA's Draft Report: "Ethical Guidance for Physicians and the Profession With Respect to Industry Support for Professional Education in Medicine"
Commentary, July 2008
Who Picks What You Learn? It is not the funder of your CME that is crucial -- it's the agenda and the benefit to patient outcomes according to Bob Morrow, MD, in this video blog.
Commentary, July 2008
Evolving Role of mTOR Inhibition in the Treatment of Renal Cell Carcinoma: An Expert Interview With Dr. Robert Motzer In this Expert Interview from ASCO 2008, Dr. Robert Motzer discusses the evolving role of mTOR inhibition in the treatment of renal cell carcinoma, with a focus on the newest agent in the class.
Expert Interview, June 2008

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Under California legislation newly signed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, health insurers will be required to cover routine HIV testing, which would encourage compliance with recommendations made by the CDC 2 years ago. Would such legislation in your state, and subsequent third-party coverage, lead to more testing for HIV in your practice setting?

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New Therapeutic Options for Metastatic Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer: The Latest Data From ASCO 2008 In this expert interview, Dr. Susan Slovin highlights new findings from ASCO 2008 and discusses key challenges facing clinicians who manage patients with castration-resistant prostate cancer.
Expert Interview, July 2008

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