Primary care is a more effective medicine not only for people with simple ailments but for those with illnesses that are serious and complex.
What the hospital might look like 10 or 20 years from now.
Essays
During the 1990s, the WQ published a regular poetry feature edited by a series of distinguished poets, who selected and introduced the works of other writers past and present. After the death of our first poetry editor, the Nobel laureate Joseph Brodsky, Anthony Hecht, one of his successors, published this tribute.
One of the legacies of the national debate over the Clinton health-care plan is a new public ambivalence about the value of medical research and technology.
Even were we to make angels out of doctors and philanthropists out of insurance company executives, we would not stem the rise of health-care costs. That is because this increase, far from being a symptom of modern medicine’s failure, is a product of its success.
The missiles that the People’s Republic of China launched toward Taiwan this spring were but the latest salvo in a long and sometimes heated dispute over control of the tiny island. Such threats of force, Anne Thurston suggests, will do little to improve chances of reconciliation. The People’s Republic might be wiser to adopt some of the ways of its forward-moving neighbor.
Advertising, the author argues, has become the single most important manufacturer of meaning in America today.
The recent rediscovery of Rebecca West’s masterful study of Yugoslavia, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon (1941), has brought deserved recognition to one of the more remarkable minds of this century. As her biographer here shows, West’s early stand against communism made her an isolated voice of conscience on the British Left.
The front door of my high school was a thousand feet from the front door of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, but Greenland might as well have blocked the distance for all the travel there was between the two. Not once, in four years, were we directed to the museum, and the museum, in those chilly 1950s, folded its arms against the temptation to reach out.
Much of our contemporary debate over fatherhood is governed by the assumption that men can solve the fatherhood problem on their own. The organizers of last year’s Million Man March asked women to stay home, and the leaders of Promise Keepers and other grassroots fatherhood movements whose members gather with considerably less fanfare simply do not admit women.