Something about Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw Passes on

The death occurred on the 2nd November, at 4-59 a.m. at his residence, in the little village of Ayot St. Lawrence, of this great man of arts, letters, philosophy, satire and controversy, at the ripe old age of 94. In living to this age, G. B. S. divorced age from senility successfully. Our interest no. 1 lies in recording this fact. Longevity without senility is the objective of to-day's medici...

The night Bernard Shaw taught us a lesson.

The ghost of George Bernard Shaw and Australian doctors' dilemmas.

The Medical Journal of Australia ISSN: 0025729X 4/18 December 2006 185 11/12 585-586 ©The Medical Journal of Australia 2006 www.mja.com.au Editorial As a prominent Fabian, Shaw would enthusiastica Australia’s Medicare scheme, with its ideals of un unfettered access to medical care and provisions for costs. But publi he lth insurance comes with a p overwhelming bureaucratisation of medical care ...

There's something about Medicaid.

In the thirty-seven years since its creation, Medicaid has grown in terms of whom it covers and what it costs. Current rates of Medicaid enrollment and cost growth are high relative to state budget capacity, but not by historical standards. The current Medicaid fiscal crisis is a result of weak state fiscal conditions and the gradual accretion of populations and services covered by Medicaid. St...

Doing something about physician burnout.

Burnout aff ects more than half of practising physicians and is on the rise. When burnout was seen as a crisis of wellbeing—aff ecting physicians’ personal lives and work satisfaction—it garnered little public sympathy and could be dismissed as the whining of a privileged class. Now that evidence suggests that burnout negatively aff ects physicians’ eff ectiveness and availability to patients, ...