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Thoughts on leaving Haiti: An Allina doctor heads home
[MinnPost, Feb. 10, 2010] MinnPost columnist and Abbott Northwestern Hospital hospitalist Dr. Craig Bowron, writes this week on the departure of another Allina doctor heading home from Haiti: After spending the last two weeks working in a field hospital in Port-au-Prince, internist and pediatrician Dr. Peter Melchert is heading home today (see two previous posts [...]
Posted: February 11th, 2010, 2:01 pm under Abbott Northwestern Hospital, MinnPost, Online, _.
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Twin Cities physician in Haiti: Many are only now getting their first treatment, and need is growing for after care
[MinnPost, Feb. 2, 2010] Every morning a flatbed named despair drives out of the Heartline Ministries compound and into the slums of Port-au-Prince, looking for the injured in need of help. When the truck returns several hours later and slides through the steel rollaway gates that guard the compound, a small medical staff goes to [...]
Posted: February 3rd, 2010, 8:48 am under Abbott Northwestern Hospital, MinnPost, Online, _.
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Connecting crystal-meth and public perception to Minnesota’s rising HIV cases
[MinnPost, Jan. 29, 2010] Earlier this week, the Minnesota Department of Health announced that the number of people with newly diagnosed HIV in 2009 had increased by 13 percent, marking a 17-year high. The increase was driven primarily by an uptick in the number of cases involving males 15 to 24 years old, 88 percent [...]
Posted: January 29th, 2010, 12:33 pm under Allina Clinics, MinnPost, Online, _.
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Pawlenty sliced Minnesota's medical care for the poor, and now time's running out
[MinnPost, Oct. 15, 2009] Three days before the 2009 Minnesota legislative session ended, Gov. Tim Pawlenty used his line-item veto to strike $381 million in second-year funding for General Assistance Medical Care (GAMC), stunning Republicans and Democrats alike. Then the Republican governor unallotted another $15 million, in effect speeding up the demise of the program [...]
Posted: October 15th, 2009, 9:47 am under health care reform/finance, MinnPost, Online, _.
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