Group emphasizes public role in health reform debate

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California Health Decisions is an advocacy group that sponsors hundreds of public forums on health care reform. It plans 500 forums for 1992, and has been working with the Public Agenda Foundation, a non-profit polling group. Both organizations find that the public thinks waste and greed are causing the healthcare crisis. Seventy-five percent want national health insurance, but only 31% want the government to administer a universal health care system. In addition, the public knows little about the healthcare reform plans and this indicates a need to educate and include them in the debate.

HEALTH SERVICES, Health aspects, Planning, Health care industry, California, Public opinion, Health care reform

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Calif. board to police doctors with 'tickets.' (the Medical Board of California will issue citations to physicians who violate practice rules)

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The Medical Board of California plans to take an active role in regulating physicians' practices, partly to improve its image as an ineffectual organization. The board will issue citations to physicians who violate minor administrative rules. In addition, the board will begin making more detailed information on state physicians, such as malpractice judgements, available to the general public. The California Medical Assn opposes the strategy because it believes that the board is targeting only minor offenders and releasing information that can be misleading.

Offices & clinics of medical doctors, Laws, regulations and rules, Physicians, Medical professions, Medical Board of California

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'Brain maps' may aid surgeons in not-too-distant future

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The time when surgeons use magnetic imaging to create three dimensional maps of tissue and bone is not far off. One plastic surgeon has already used the technology to good effect, creating software that enabled him to reconstruct the facial features of a disfigured girl in just one operation. In a separate development, researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have made strides in the area of Adaptive Current Tomography, which uses electrical current to image organs.

Electromedical equipment, Usage, Innovations, Magnetic resonance imaging, Digital mapping, Tomography, Brain mapping, Surgical technology

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