Essays On State Medicine

Many pre-med students have great MCAT scores and excellent grades--the best way to stand out in a crowd of medical school applicants is to write an exceptional essay! Medical School Essays That Made a Difference, 2nd Edition puts you in the admissions officer's seat -- inside you'll find real application essays, interviews with admissions pros, and profiles of students who've been through the process and made it through to medical school. This book is an essential guide for anyone navigating the very competitive medical school admissions process. Medical School Essays That Made a Difference, 2nd Edition includes essays submitted to the following schools: Albany Medical College Baylor College of Medicine Boston University, School of Medicine Brown University, Brown Medical School Case Western Reserve University, School of Medicine Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons Cornell University, Joan & Sanford I. Weill Medical Center Creighton University, School of Medicine Duke University, School of Medicine Eastern Virginia Medical School Edward Via Virginia College of Osteopathic Medicine Emory University, School of Medicine Florida State University, College of Medicine George Washington University, School of Medicine and Health Sciences Howard University, College of Medicine Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine Loma Linda University, School of Medicine Louisiana State University, School of Medicine Loyola University of Chicago, Stritch School of Medicine Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Mayo Medical School Medical College of Georgia, School of Medicine Medical College of Wisconsin Medical University of South Carolina Meharry Medical College, School of Medicine Michigan State University, College of Osteopathic Medicine New York University, Mount Sinai School of Medicine New York University, NYU School of Medicine Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine Ohio State University, College of Medicine and Public Health Oregon Health & Science University, School of Medicine Pennsylvania State University, College of Medicine Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine Rush University, Rush Medical College Saint Louis University, School of Medicine Southern Illinois University, School of Medicine State University of New York-Downstate Medical Center State University of New York-Stony Brook University, School of Medicine State University of New York-University at Buffalo, School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences State University of New York-Upstate Medical University, College of Medicine Temple University, School of Medicine Thomas Jefferson University, Jefferson Medical College Tufts University, School of Medicine Tulane University, School of Medicine UMDNJ, New Jersey Medical School UMDNJ, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School University of Alabama-Birmingham, School of Medicine University of California-Irvine, College of Medicine University of California-Los Angeles, David Geffen School of Medicine University of California-San Diego, School of Medicine University of California-San Francisco, School of Medicine University of Chicago, Pritzker School of Medicine University of Florida, College of Medicine University of Illinois at Chicago, UIC College of Medicine University of Iowa, Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine University of Kentucky, College of Medicine University of Maryland, School of Medicine University of Massachusetts, Medical School University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine at Florida Atlantic University University of Michigan, Medical School University of Minnesota-Duluth, Medical School University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Medical School University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, School of Medicine University of North Dakota, School of Medicine and Health Services University of Pennsylvania, School of Medicine University of Pittsburgh, School of Medicine University of Rochester, School of Medicine and Dentistry University of South Alabama, College of Medicine University of South Dakota, School of Medicine University of South Florida, College of Medicine University of Southern California, Keck School of Medicine University of Tennessee-Memphis, College of Medicine University of Toledo, Health Science Campus University of Virginia, School of Medicine University of Wisconsin-Madison, School of Medicine and Public Health Vanderbilt University, School of Medicine Virginia College of Osteopathic Medicine Virginia Commonwealth University, School of Medicine Wake Forest University, School of Medicine Washington University in St. Louis, School of Medicine West Virginia University, School of Medicine Western University of Health Sciences, College of Osteopathic Medicine of the Pacific Yeshiva University, Albert Einstein School of Medicine

The social history of medicine over the last fifteen years has redrawn the boundaries of medical history. Specialised papers and monographs have contributed to our knowledge of how medicine has affected society and how society has shaped medicine. This book synthesises, through a series of essays, some of the most significant findings of this 'new social history' of medicine. The period covered ranges from ancient Greece to the present time. While coverage is not exhaustive, the reader is able to trace how medicine in the West developed from an unlicensed open market place, with many different types of practitioners in the classical period, to the nineteenth- and twentieth-century professionalised medicine of State influence, of hospitals, public health medicine, and scientific medicine. The book also covers innovatory topics such as patient-doctor relationships, the history of the asylum, and the demographic background to the history of medicine.

The distinctive mixing and continuous remixing of public and private roles is a defining feature of health care in the United States. The Public-Private Health Care State explores the interweaving of public and private enterprise in health care in the United States as a basis for thinking about health care in terms of its history and its continuing evolution today. Historian and policy analyst Rosemary Stevens has selected and edited seventeen essays from both her published and unpublished work to illustrate continuing themes, such as: the flexible meanings of the terms public and private, and how useful their ambiguity has been and is; the role of ideology as ratifying rather than preordaining change; and the common behavior of public leaders and corporate entities in the face of fiscal opportunity. The topics--covering the period of 1870 through the twenty-first century--represent Stevens' research interests in hospital history and policy, the medical profession, government policy, and paying for health care. The volume also considers her involvement with policy questions, which include health services research, health maintenance organizations, and physician workforce policy. Section I demonstrates the long history of state government involvement with private not-for-profit hospitals from the 1870s through the 1930s. Section II examines the federal role in health care from the 1920s through the 1970s, including the establishment of veterans' hospitals and the implementation of Medicaid. Section III shows how shifting governmental roles require constantly changing organizing rhetoric, whether for inventing a federal role for health services research and HMOs, regionalization in the 1970s, or defining civil rights and equity as mobilizing vehicles in the 1980s. Section IV examines growing concerns from the 1970s through the present about the traditional public role of the largely private medical profession. Section V returns to the ambiguous public-priv