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2010

September

09/02: New York Times. Tending to Patients During a Hurricane

09/02: Well - Tara Parker-Pope on Health. Testing the Bonds of Doctor and Patient

 

August

08/27: CNN Health. Charity's last hours: Brutal, beautiful

08/02: US Politics Today. Physician Outraged by Medicare Power Wheelchair Documentation Policy

 

July

07/28: HME News. Some relationship advice for CMS

07/16: The Medical Quack. Physician Talks About the Red Tape, Forms and Administrative Time Required by CMS to get a Wheelchair for Patients - Sounds Complicated!

07/16: Redorbit.com. Physician Outraged by Medicare Power Wheelchair Documentation Policy

07/16: Mobility Matters. Physician Outraged by CMS Documentation Policy

07/15: Salud Today. San Antonio Medical/Nursing Students Teach Healthy Choices to Latino Kids

07/13: HSC News. HSC students teach 'Healthy Choices for Kids'

07/12: Express-News. Kids learn about healthy choices

 

May

o5/21: The SCOOTER Store. The SCOOTER Store Invests in Ethics Training for Future Doctors

05/11: Alamo Asian America Chamber of Commerse. Chamber's Women's Community Group Lunch Program Sold Out

 

April

Caring for the Ages. What We Owe: Payments Due the Invisible Minority

04/15: Express-News. Teen moms taught basics of breast-feeding

 

March

03/31: San Antonio Business Journal - Greater Chamber, Ford honor outstanding San Antonio women

03/24: On the Road with Dr. Rohack - Today's medical students to benefit from health reform

03/24: Express-News - AMA chief says health reform just starting

03/12: San Antonio Business Journal - Greater Chamber releases names of women business leaders

03/04: KLRN - Conversations: Dr. Ruth Berggren & Dr. Tyler Curiel

03/04: Inside KLRN - A Major Tragedy Struck

 

February

02/09: The Writers Read - Jerald Winakur

02/09: WMBF - CCU visiting lecturer to discuss ethics of cybernetics

 

January

STFM - Medical Students Hone Altruistic Skills Through Service to the Underserved

San Antonio Woman - Teaching Caring and Compassion

01/29: Express-News - I can't wait to return to Haiti

01/25: KSAT12 - Blog: Local Doctor Blogs From Haiti Hospital

01/24: WOAI - Burrito competitions help relief efforts in Haiti

01/24: Express-News - Burritos to Haiti's rescue

01/22: Express-News - S.A. hosts events, collects donations

01/21: QueQue - Dr. Berggren in Haiti: Safe, heartbroken, and hopeful

01/20: Current - Special Haiti-edition QueQue

01/17: QueQue - Haiti: An SA Aftershock

01/15: KSAT12 - Local Doctor Returns To Haiti

01/14: WOAI - San Antonio doctor ready to fly to Haiti as soon as possible

01/14: TPR.org - UTHSC Working To Provide Relief to Haiti After Quake

01/14: 590KLBJ.com - Local doctor traveliing to Haiti prepared for challenges

01/13: Express-News - San Antonian heading back to Haiti to help

01/13: KSAT12 - Local Students Missed Quake By Days

Caring for the Ages - The Power of Story in Long-Term Care

San Antonio Magazine - Best Doctors 2009-10, Working Holiday

Vanguard - Donors fund lectures, bring prominent speakers to campus

 

2009

December

Scene in S.A. - San Antonio's Top Doctors

Update - Connective Tissue: Art & Literature Journal; Center for Medical Humanities and Ethics to host Third Annual Community Service Learning Conference; Ethics Bites

 

November

11/05: San Antonio's Classical Oasis - Schweitzer & Bach

News from the Libraries - Center for Medical Humanities & Ethics to host 3rd annual community service learning conference in April 2010

 

October

10/30: San Antonio Business Journal - Women's Leadership Award Luncheon

10/20: Express-News - Health care reform tackled at UTHSC lecture

10/16: MySA.com - Health care heavy hitters to talk on fixing broken system

10/14: KENS5 - S.A. to host free forum on health care reform

10/09: San Antonio Medicine - TexasLivingWill.org brings advance directives home

 

September

09/26: Express-News - Surgeon's book explores empathy, ethics

09/26: Texas Public Radio - UTHSC 2008 Frank Bryant Memorial Lecture Series

09/25: Express-News - 2 local writers honored at INKstravaganza

09/25: Adding Life to Years - Nearly half of Nevada pharamcists think they should have the right to refuse to fill prescriptions

09/23: Express-News - Writing couple gets a well-deserved honor

09/22: HSC News - Dr. Pauline Chen to discuss her book, 'Final Exam,' Sept. 25

09/17: Express-News - Multitalented man touts music's healing power

09/08: KSAT12 - Doctor's Book Tells Personal Story

09/07: MySA.com - Healthy Choices for Kids Program

09/04: Express-News - Student-run clinics a godsend for poor, uninsured

San Antonio Woman - Autumn Reading

 

August

08/31: Kens5 - Colorful atlas a labor of love for S.A. doctor

08/20: Express-News - San Antonio doctor discusses end-of-life issues

08/18: KENS5 - Local Geriatrician joins national discussion on health care reform

08/18: HCB Magazine - San Antonio Geriatrician Joins National Discussion On Health Care Reform

08/07: KSAT12 - Playground, Paint Provide Education

Future Magazine - Authors and Authorities: Writing Textbooks is a Labor of Love; Ethics in Action is the driving force at the Center for Medical Humanities & Ethics

 

July

07/27: HSC News - Summer program helps kids learn to make healthy choices

07/16: Express-News - Health Science Center adopts West Side park

 

June

National Association of Attorney Generals - Other News of Interest

06/22: Hospice Foundation of America Blog - End of Life Care Notes: Around the United States

06/22: The Monitor - UT Health Science Center ethicist creates living will Web site

06/20: Brownsville Herald - New Web site offers living will help

06/17: Valley Morning Star - Living wills help families prepare for emergencies, death of loved ones

06/17: AARP Bulletin Today - Living wills help families prepare for emergencies, death of loved ones

06/11: Ethics Illustrated - Web site makes 'end-of-life' planning easier for Texans

06/09: Beumont Enterprise - Web site makes 'end-of-life' planning easier for Texans

06/07: Unavision - Recuperan parques en San Antonio

06/07: KENS5 - Teens, med students come together to clean up Vidaurri Park on west side

06/04: HSC News - New Web site eases end-of-life planning for Texans

06/04: HCB Magazine - New Web site Eases End-Of-Life Planning for Texans

 

May

05/24: Express-News - Advance directive can help make sure that you get your wish

05/24: MYSA.COM Videos - Unusual approach to living wills

05/01: ValleyCentral.com - Clay's Clincher: The UIL Got It, Get It?

 

April 30, 2009

04/30: Seattle Post-Intelligencer - Expert answers to common swine flu questions

04/30: Express-News - Answers to some swine flu questions

04/22: KENS5 - S.A. Doctor Pens New Medical Atlas

04/07: HSC News - Prominent biomedical ethicist visits campus

04/07: EmaxHealth.com - PAHO Says Hospitals Should Stand Up to Disasters

 

March

03/30: Express-News - Barbershop home of hypertension fight

03/17: Salud! America - Future doctors, nurses to model healthy nutrition, physical activity for middle-school children

 

February

02/27: Express-News - Katrina forged a new outlook for director

02/23: KENS5 - Memory Lessons: A Doctor's Story

02/18: Express-News - Doctor returns to S.A. with new novel in hand

02/15: Dallas Morning News - 'Cutting for Stone' by Abraham Verghese: Compelling characters inhabit saga of conjoined twins

02/12: Rediff.com - Mira Nair, Abraham Verghese in conversation

02/10: HSC News - Medical students to share Haitian mission experience Feb. 17

02/10: HSC News - Verghese returns to Health Science Center for reading

02/08: Express-News - Physician Verghese takes readers on epic journey

 

January

01/27: HSC News - HSC Physician Writes Book About the Aging Process

01/18: Express-News - Doctor Advocates for the Elderly

01/17: Star Tribune - Leading the Blind: A Doctor helps his father through the dark and frightening world of Alzheimer's

01/11: Express-News - Winter/spring book offerings provide some bright spots

01/09: Texas Monthly - The Long Goodbye

01/09: O Magazine - The Long Goodbye

01/01: HCB Magazine - Dr. Jerald Winakur and Hyperion Press Announce Release of Novel

 

2008

August

Mission magazine - Seeing, Believing, Healing

 

July

07/21: KENS-5 CBS San Antonio - Group Teaches Kids How to Prevent Diabetes
07/02: Express-News - West Side: Having good, healthy fun

 

March
San Antonio Magazine - Best Doctors of 2008

January
01/01: UTHSCSA - Teaching Excellence Awards


2007

December
12/01: KGNS 08 - Frontera de Salud students and faculty volunteers gave free checkups

October
10/18: Express-News - Katrina responder to head UTHSC unit

August
08/30: Express-News - Author reflects on a lifetime of laughter, relationships

June
06/01: Brown Alumni Magazine - The View From The OR

May
05/01: Chicago Tribune - Book Club Good Medicine for Patients, Physicians

March
03/26: Express-News - Historian to discuss polio book

2006

December

12/02: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel - AIDS specialist combines 2 arts to create a science of healing

October
10/20: Reuters Report - Creative writing may make doctors better
10/01: Medical Progress - The Hindu

June
06/01: KRIS - UTHSCSA medical students volunteer

March
03/01: ACP Observer - Looking to the arts to keep compassion in patient care