Here are the links to every entry in Trudy Lieberman’s “Excluded Voices” series, in descending order.
08/18/09: Excluded Voices - An interview with Andrew Dillon, who heads Britain’s National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE)
06/24/09: Excluded Voices - An interview with Wendell Potter, former head of corporate communications for CIGNA, the country’s fourth-largest insurer
06/16/09: Excluded Voices - An interview with Louise Russell, research professor at Rutgers and an expert on preventative care
05/21/09: Excluded Voices - An interview with Jonathan Oberlander, health policy expert and professor of social medicine and health policy & management at the University of North Carolina—Chapel Hill
04/08/09: Excluded Voices - An interview with Marilyn Moon, vice president of the American Institutes for Research and a former trustee of the Medicare system
02/09/09: Excluded Voices - An interview with Timothy Jost, law professor at Washington and Lee University and author of Health Care at Risk: A Critique of the Consumer-Driven Movement
11/17/08: Excluded Voices - An interview with Theodore Marmor, public policy and political science professor at Yale and expert on the politics of Medicare
The most important of the Excluded Voices are not the experts, but the victims, those without medicare or any other health provision.
#1 Posted by Hal Austin, CJR on Wed 17 Jun 2009 at 11:44 AM
Another voice you might want to consider is Arnold Relman M.D. author of "A Second Opinion.". Relman started practicing in the 60s and went on to teach at many schools (Emeritus at Harvard), do research and was Editor in Chief of NEJM. The book was published in '07.
#2 Posted by Ginny in CO, CJR on Wed 24 Jun 2009 at 11:36 PM
Thank you for this series! It's excellent.
#3 Posted by CMYK, CJR on Thu 25 Jun 2009 at 04:12 AM
I'm going to have to agree with Hal.....
The most IMPORTANT of the Excluded Voices are NOT those of the experts, They ARE those of the VICTIMS,
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#4 Posted by Mary Vivenzi, CJR on Thu 25 Jun 2009 at 09:38 AM
So far this deceitfully-named series itself has been "remarkable for the narrow range of ideas and opinions," heavily bunched up at the extreme tip on one end of the spectrum.
A law professor? A political science professor? Please.
How about an advocate for getting the politicians and bureaucrats OUT of health care altogether, for good? Somebody who can explain the damage they already do?
Or someone who can explain the threat to innovation posed by political meddling?
THOSE would be excluded voices.
Until then, you need to change the name of the series.
#5 Posted by j.a.m., CJR on Thu 25 Jun 2009 at 09:51 AM
My book, First, Do No Harm, The Cure for Medical Malpractice was published 5 years ago. It received three positive reviews, including the New England Journal of Medicine, yet no one seeking how to improve the quality of health care and to be shown how medical peer review, if used properly, can greatly reduce the need for malpractice litigation. Doctors are, or should be, the best judges of other doctors, but doctors don't know how to judge other doctors regarding questionable patient care. I can provide such a system of medical peer review that goes far beyond anyone's imagination. Interested?
#6 Posted by Dr. Ira Williams, CJR on Sun 28 Jun 2009 at 12:10 PM