The HealthCare_2.0 Vision & background

Tel-A-Vision for the 21st Century

HealthCare_2.0

First Choice All About HealthCare_2.0 -- our vision, our web site, our name .

Best Pick Debate on Health Care Reform -- an exercise in Pseudo-Journalism

The Health Assurance Act of 2010

Maternity Care 2.0 overview & recommendations
for evidence-based, physiological management of normal childbirth in healthy women

Responsible Midwifery for the 21^st Century ~ part 1 (of 2)

Analysis & History Relevant to HealthCare Reform
and Fresh ideas for a bright future -- Suzanne Arms et al

Annotated Excerpts from the "Marginalization of Nurse Midwifery"

Choice in Planning and Experiencing Childbirth AMA Journal of Ethics
~ Virtual Mentor. September 2004, Volume 6, Number 9. Policy Forum

Practical Suggestions for transforming 21st Century Maternity care
1. Overview of topic 2. How normal birth became a surgical procedure
performed by an obstetrician 3. The principles of physiological management

The History of Western Medicine from A to Z
A work-in-progress . .
Primitive Medicine
Ancient Greek Physician Hippocrates, the Father of Western Medicine (450 BC)
Hx Physicians; Hx of Surgery; Hx of Early Hospitals;
Hx of Islamic Medicine - 700 to 1100;
Hx of Medical Practice from Galen to medical practices during the Middle Ages;
Hx of Medicine from 1600 to Pasteur's 1881 Germ Theory of Infections Disease;
Hx of American Medical Association in 1847 to 21st Century Scope of Practice Partnership; Hx of 19th and 20th century obstetrical practices in the United States;
A Dysfunctional HC System -- How did it get so far off track?

I have a dream ......

I dream of standing above the clouds, in cool clear air, looking down on the jagged rock face and the valley below and having an uncluttered mind.

Far from the maddening crowds, one can see health care transform for what it is -- an opportunity to turn abstract American ideals into a practical reality, one that lets us stand side by side with the rest of the developed world and feel proud.

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This website is dedicated to Baby Boy Lance Anderson and Donna Driscoll , LM