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		<title>Which Side Are You Really On, Jane Chin?!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 04:42:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jane Chin, Ph.D.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I received what is probably the most passionate email from a reader of this blog that I&#8217;ve ever gotten since creating NakedMedicine.com in 2006. The email concludes with this: I can&#8217;t figure out what your agenda is Ms Chin. Are siding with the poor hard working physicians who are fighting a losing battle with their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Will Healthcare Become a Moral Question? (Are we already there?)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Feb 2009 21:34:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jane Chin, Ph.D.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Jane Chin This morning I was skyping with one of my favorite people, Bhupesh of Ethnicomm, when we began talking about the current state of healthcare. Bhupesh lives in Canada, where healthcare is socialized in a way that has become apparently very attractive to various healthcare &#8220;activists&#8221; and interest groups here in the U.S. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Retail Clinics: Quick When You&#8217;re Sick</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jun 2008 03:31:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Dan Abshear Recently in the media, issues have been addressed regarding the specialty of primary care or family practice doctors and the shortage of them in the U.S. In summary, reasons for the shortage that exists are due to the specialty not being that profitable for a doctor compared with other specialties. As a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Not Poor Enough or Not Sick Enough</title>
		<link>http://www.nakedmedicine.com/not-poor-enough-or-not-sick-enough</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Sep 2007 14:31:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jane Chin, Ph.D.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Shirley Loewe had one of the most aggressive form of breast cancer (inflammatory breast cancer). Her tumor was already 4 inches wide when she was diagnosed in 2003. Adding insult to cancer, Shirley was repeatedly denied care because she was either &#8220;not poor enough&#8221; to qualify on Medicaid in Texas because she made $15,000 a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Backgrounder on Diabetes Drug Avandia Controversy</title>
		<link>http://www.nakedmedicine.com/backgrounder-on-diabetes-drug-avandia-controversy</link>
		<comments>http://www.nakedmedicine.com/backgrounder-on-diabetes-drug-avandia-controversy#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jul 2007 17:04:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jane Chin, Ph.D.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been tracking the various developments and commentaries on the controversy surrounding diabetes drug Avandia (rosiglitazone, manufactured by GlaxoSmithKline). For those of you interested in background information and commentaries relating to the use of Avandia and increased risk for heart disease, as well as the affordability of chronic medications like diabetes drugs, I&#8217;ve compiled a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Massachusetts Mandatory Health Insurance Law for Young People</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jul 2007 14:27:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jane Chin, Ph.D.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t know what your finances looked like when you were when you were 18 or in your early twenties, but I was a starving graduate student barely able to afford rent. If now I have to pay at least $100 each month on top of my expenses, I&#8217;d sink deeper into debt unless I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Medical Malpractice Makes Unaffordable Healthcare</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Jan 2007 19:32:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jane Chin, Ph.D.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Philip K. Howard is a lawyer, author, and chair of an organization that aims to &#8220;restore common sense to American Law&#8221; called Common Good. In a recent issue of Wall Street Journal, Mr. Howard suggested that our aims for safer and affordable American healthcare can only come true when we change our current legal system. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Truth in Healthcare Sits Between Extremes</title>
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		<comments>http://www.nakedmedicine.com/truth-in-healthcare-sits-between-extremes#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Sep 2006 20:16:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jane Chin, Ph.D.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A friend sent me an article called, &#8220;Drugged out of our minds&#8220;, written by Larry M. Jones, a retired Navy Commander and aviator in Texas. Mr. Jones thought the reasons given by drug companies for high drug costs smelled fishy and didn&#8217;t appreciate having to fight for a parking space or waiting room seat with [...]]]></description>
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