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This lecture launcher directed by Mary Harron is a short film that tells the all too familiar tale of American healthcare. A patient enters a hospital with a migraine headache, unaware of the costs his visit will incur on the path to a diagnosis. Part of WE THE ECONOMY, a series of short films developed by renowned filmmakers and apanel of top economic experts, meant to provoke thought and discussion about fundamental and topical economicissues and...

This study assesses changes in emergency department and inpatient care for children residing in a target neighborhood over the first decade of a community development intervention.

An unconventional approach to recovery and coping, music therapy is a field of medicine capturing new attention due to its role in helping Gabrielle Giffords recover from a gunshot to the head. Correspondent Spencer Michels reports on the versatility of music in a medical setting as well as the difficulty of quantifying its effectiveness.

In his book How Doctors Think, Dr. Jerome Groopman provides insight onthe thought processesbehind decisions that doctors make and explores the important relationship between doctor and patient. In this interview, Groopman discusses why he wrote the book, the prevalence of misdiagnosis, and more.

The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) between Canada, the United States, and Mexico was supposed to protect the environment, create high-wage U.S. jobs, and raise the living standards of all three countries. The downside is the loss of over half a million U.S. jobs when companies moved jobs to cheaper labor markets, and the near destruction of the Mexican farming industry due to government subsidized produce from the U.S. entering the Mexican...

Should doctors be allowed to help suffering patients die? Twenty-five years ago, with his homemade suicide machine, Dr. Jack Kevorkian raised that question. It's an issue Americans still struggle with today.