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The
Connection, April 26, 2002.
Curing the High Cost of Health Care. Feeling sick, getting better. Now the costs
of health care include new tests, new technologies…but these expensive
ways of stretching our life expectancy are close to snapping our ability to
pay for it all. http://www.theconnection.org/shows/2002/04/20020426_a_main.asp
It takes more than perfect
medical boards and an ability to operate without sleep to be a successful young
doctor these days.
Medical students in America are graduating into the wold and woolly world of
floundering managed care companies, and they need a healthy dose of composure
to deal with it. This week's demise of Harvard Pilgrim Healthcare, one of America's
model HMOs, is just the latest in a series of managed care disasters.The world
didn't get the Y2K bug, but Harvard Pilgrim seems to have caught a full-blown
$177 million flu. This problem echo trends all over the country that older doctors
have been complaining about for years. But the real question is what they do
to the idealism and enthusiasm that brings students to medicine in the first
place. Life as a young doctor in Managed Care America, in the second hour of
the Connection, with Josh Sharfstein pediatrician at the Boston Medical Center,
Perry Class pediatrician at Dorchester House. Click here--http://realserver.bu.edu:8080/ramgen/w/b/wbur/connection/audio/2000/01/con0107b.rm
The Diane Rehm Show, Wednesday, January 8, 2003 10:00 - Reproductive and Research Cloning
Recent claims of a successful human cloning have renewed interest in the scientific and ethical issues related to reproductive and research cloning. Diane talks with two scientists about cloning and some of the many related ethical questions.
Dr. John Gearhart, researcher, Johns Hopkins University
Dr. Leon Kass, fellow, the American Enterprise Institute and author of a new book, Life, Liberty and the Defense of Dignity.
http://www.wamu.org/ram/2003/r1030108.ram
What
if we could extend our lives for another 100 years or genetically eradicate
all disease? What if we could design our children to have a stylish nose or
a high IQ? Biotechnology is advancing at a pace that is making these questions
a reality. How is biotechnology changing what it means to be human? Join Neal
Conan in this hour of Next Talk of the Nation from NPR News. Click here--http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/totn/20020415.totn.01.ram
Guests:
Dr. Leon Kass, Chairman of President Bush's Council on Bioethics
Gregory Stock, Director of the Program of Medicine Technology and Society, University
of California at Los Angeles School of Medicine, Author, Redesigning Humans:
Our Inevitable Future (Houghton Mifflin, 2002)
A
panel talks about the biotechnology and ethical issues behind the recent story
of a woman who used high-tech screening to ensure her baby would not be born
with the gene for early-onset Alzheimer's disease.
Sue Gitlin, Jones Institute for Reproductive Medicine
Roberta Springer Loewy, University of California-Davis Program in Bioethics
Kimberly Quaid, Indiana University School of Medicine
Entire program for January
26, 1998 (about 48 minutes)
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EUTHANASIA (1996) As Dr. Jack Kevorkian faces trial in Michigan for his role
in another assisted suicide, Ray Suarez hosts a discussion of the deeper issues
in this national debate over the individual's right to die. When exactly can
we draw the line between death and life? Is it possible to legally define when
a person's suffering outweighs the benefits of living?
Guests: Dr. Stephen Jamison, Author, Final Acts of Love: Families, Friends,
and Assisted Dying , (Tarcher, 1995), San Francisco, CA, Speaker and Associate
Director, Georgetown Center for Bioethics, Listeners call in.
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ROE V. WADE It's been 25 years since the Supreme Court legalized abortion with
the ruling in Roe versus Wade. Though legal, abortion has remained a highly
controversial issue, having moral implications on American politics, legislation,
and religion. Join host Ray Suarez for a discussion about the impact of Roe
v. Wade, the history of the anti-abortion and pro-choice movements, and the
evolution of abortion services.
GUESTS: Cynthia Gorney , Author, Articles of Faith: A Frontline History of the
Abortion Wars [Simon and Schuster, 1998] Former reporter, The Washington Post
(1975-1991) , David Garrow , Author, Liberty and Sexuality: The Right to Privacy
and the Making of Roe v. Wade [Macmillian, 1994] , Professor, Emory University
School of Law , Janet Benshoof , Executive Director, Center for Reproductive
Freedom , James Bopp , General Counsel, National Right to Life Committee.
Note: there is some old news about the Clinton
impeachment near the beginning of the segment (but not right at the start).
Talk of the Nation, Wednesday, June 26, 2002
Listen here with Real Audio:http://search.npr.org/cf/cmn/segment_display.cfm?segID=1456 In less than a week, the Supreme Court has made two major rulings limiting the way states can put people to death. Are there more changes ahead? The evolution of the death penalty in America and what the most current decisions mean for its future. Join Neal Conan for Talk of the Nation from NPR News.
Guests: Nina Totenberg* NPR Legal Affairs Correspondent Stuart Banner* Author, The Death Penalty: An American History (Harvard University Press, 2002) Victor Streib* Law Professor, Ohio Northern University (specializing in violent crime and death penalty) Robert Blecker* Law Professor, New York Law School* Author of the forthcoming Who Deserves to Die (Basic Books, 2003) Jim Glassman* Fellow, American Enterprise Institute* Author, The Secret Code of the Superior Investor: How to Be a Long-Term Winner in a Short-Term World (Crown, 2002)*