Health
Care Public Forum:
August 30, 2001 Originally published
August 31, 2001 Stories: -
Question of access
- No magic solutions, lawmakers warn
- SOUTH SOUND VOICES
- Patients' bill of rights awaits Congress' return
- Health crisis reaches pharmacies
- Forum addresses local health care crisis
- Health insurance premiums post alarming rise
- Leaders look for answers to combat health care crisis
- OUR VIEWS: Health care crisis forum is Thursday
- No one sees quick cure for doctor shortage
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End
of Memorial Clinic Originally published
June 24, 2001 Stories: -
Move-out day at Memorial Clinic
- Doctor shortage brings burnout fear in emergency rooms
- Memorial Clinic doctors examine options, stay in town
- St. Peter residency grads to practice in South Sound
- Shutdown leaves patients frustrated
- What the Memorial Clinic doctors are doing
- Whom to call
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Health
Care in Crisis:
Doctor Shortage Originally published
May 13, 2001 Stories: -
Doctor shortage becoming critical
- Cantwell, Murray to speak at health forum
- What you need to know about your records and your doctors
- Readers sound off
- Frustrations lead to exodus from state
- Abuse prevention 'driving everyone nuts'
- Whom to call
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Health
Care in Crisis:
Low-income patients at risk Originally published
Feb. 18, 2001 Stories: -
Medical payments force doctors to leave area
- Clinics for low-income patients try to fill gap
- Current system an 'accident of history'
- Health care glossary
- How contracts work, proposed budget
- Low-income clinic locations and hours
- Congressional advisory panel finds troubles with funding
- Managed care has unintended consequences Click here for stories
Endless
bureaucracy is forcing many doctors to leave practices Originally
published May 21, 2001 Readers:
A friend of ours, Dr. Carl Ott, writes today's column. It concerns
a different kind of emergency that confronts our profession
and our society.
HEALTH
CARE IN CRISIS: Opinion Opinions: -
Health care crisis forum is Thursday (August 26, 2001)
- Senators get an earful on health care (June 3, 2001)
- Attend health care forum Wednesday (May 27, 2001)
- House budget is bad news (May 4, 2001) Click
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