Health Policy: The Best of Times or the Worst?

The best of times or the worst of times?

Introduction What is globalization? Theorists, the media, and people have discussed this phenomenon for decades. What does the future hold for a global world? People advocating a global world and those who are against it debate the pros and cons of the globalization process. Globalization is ubiquitous and when globalization is discussed, everyone has different images. Here, it is defined as th...

Mediation: The Best and Worst of Times

At this period in the evolution of dispute resolution, mediation is in a unique time zone, similar to what Dickens described in a Tale of Two Cities, as the best and worst of times, the seasons of Light and Darkness. It is the best of times, the season of Light and a time of joy in honoring human connections, as mediation is widely embraced in the public and private sectors. From government age...

Hospitals and health systems: the best of times and the worst of times.

Hospitals and health systems, whether general acute care hospitals or specialty-driven hospitals, are attempting to prosper in a unique time. This year, hospitals throughout the country will see increased reimbursement for hospital inpatient services, rather than decreased reimbursement. Many hospitals are examining a multitude of options for debt financing and a number of the nation's hospital...

The Best of Times, the Worst of Times: Health and Nutrition in Pre-Columbian America

In his presidential address to the American Historical Association, John Coatsworth argued that study of change over time in physical or spiritual well-being is the central unifying concern of history. While one may quibble with the generalization, any reasonable time and motion study would find that historians devote most of their research efforts to gathering, organizing, interpreting and dis...

The best of times and worst of times.