Dr. Couch is a medical quality management consultant serving providers and purchasers of health care services (including insurers and corporations) nationwide. He represents the 6,000 physician executives of the American College of Physician Executives and American College of Utilization Review Physicians at the JCAHO. He is associated with the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics of the...

tactics and pragmatism he displayed. But Bevan's accomplishment, formidable as it was, has to be put in proper perspective. Unlike Lloyd George in 1911, Bevan had the backing of a movement that already had force. Does Webster deny that? If so, he takes issue with Bevan himself for this is what the Minister had to say when he introduced the Health Service Bill in 1946: "The first reason why a he...

It is a special privilege to receive an award that honors Doug Richardson, who was my attending physician during residency. He showed extraordinary dedication to his patients, his colleagues, and his trainees. I thought I would share my thoughts on quality measurement here not only because the care that Doug gave was of the highest quality but also because he believed in applying measurement to...

tactics and pragmatism he displayed. But Bevan's accomplishment, formidable as it was, has to be put in proper perspective. Unlike Lloyd George in 1911, Bevan had the backing of a movement that already had force. Does Webster deny that? If so, he takes issue with Bevan himself for this is what the Minister had to say when he introduced the Health Service Bill in 1946: "The first reason why a he...

Nietzsche assesses values, moralities, religions, cultures, and persons in terms of health. He argues that we should reject those are unhealthy develop healthier alternatives. But what is Nietzsche’s conception health, why it carry such normative force? In this paper I argue for reading concept health as the overall ability to meet demands one’s motivational landscape. show that, unlike other i...

Dr Halfdan Mahler served three terms as director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO) from 1973 to 1988. He joined WHO in 1951 as a senior officer attached to the National Tuberculosis Programme in India. He came to WHO headquarters in 1962 as chief of the tuberculosis programme, a post he held until 1969. From 1969 until 1970, he served as director of project systems analysis. From 1...