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The Healing Starts Here
Sexual Assault Center Helps Victims Find Victory
National statistics show that one in four people will be sexually abused in their lifetime. Sexual assault knows no boundaries. It crosses racial, ethnic and socioeconomic lines. Often, a friend, relative or acquaintance is the one crossing that line... and the resulting devastation takes both a physical and psychological toll.
CINDY SANDERS |
Leadership Health Care Gets D.C. Reform Update
Local Delegation Visits with Key Players in Debate
Washington D.C. is a world unto itself.
Visitors often require assistance from knowledgeable local guides to understand the ins and outs and ups and downs of the constantly changing political and public policy scene.
KELLY PRICE |
Highlights from TMA Annual Meeting
Patient Safety, Disaster Preparedness & a New President
The Tennessee Medical Association held its 174th annual meeting in Nashville last month. MedTenn 2009 was the Tennessee Medical Association's primary membership meeting and policy forum for physician leaders representing 7,800 physicians in Tennessee.
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Vital Signs
As the debate about healthcare reform continues ad nauseum, it seems that what is perhaps the most primary question in the ongoing debate keeps getting lost in the rabble. How do you go about fixing the fact that so many Americans are simply unhealthy people? Not sick, unhealthy.
Walker Duncan, walker.duncan@nashvillepost.com |
Tennessee Nursing Update
TNA Addresses Policy & Practice IssuesEach spring, America spends a week paying tribute to a group of dedicated healthcare professionals that are on the front lines. After all, nurses are often the face of medicine in the community, and today's professionals are involved in every aspect of healthcare from patient care, education and technology enhancement to policy-making, research and quality improvement initiatives.
CINDY SANDERS |
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Meharry Selected as Site of Center for Health Policy
Recognizing that health policy decisions are better when decision-makers themselves reflect the diversity of the populations affected, a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Center for Health Policy is in the organizational stages on the campus of Nashville's Meharry Medical College.
SHARON H. FITZGERALD |
Understanding Our Behavioral Blind Spots
Making the Difficult Choices
Investment decisions are among the most important life choices a person can make. They may determine where your children will be able to go to college, when you'll be able to retire, or what kind of lifestyle you'll enjoy after you retire.
THOMAS V. ZEUTHEN, CFP |
The Four New Realities of Financial Security
Investors have truly been challenged in the last 18 months by the stock market and the economy. We have entered a new era of American finance–and really a new era of world finance. We have ended an era of greed, and now find ourselves in an era of caution–as in we really need to proceed with caution.
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Physician Spotlight: Bill Paul, Metro Health Director, Doesn't Avoid the Thorny Issues
Menu Labeling, Infant Mortality, Obesity, Mosquito Control, STDs
From health clinic operation to restaurant inspections... smoking-cessation education to approval of swimming pool plans... tracking infectious diseases to animal and pest control –– the duties of the Metro Nashville Department of Health are among the most varied and challenging in local government.
SHARON H. FITZGERALD |
Helping Patients with Pelvic Dysfunction
Technology, Therapy Offer Viable Solutions
When, as a society, you are using more Poise pads than diapers, it might be a cue to take pelvic health seriously.
CINDY SANDERS |
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