Issue #21, 2003
Rage and Reconciliation
Our 21st issue, "Rage & Reconciliation: Inspiring a Health Care Revolution" features writers, both patients and doctors, exploring the current state of American health care. In "Notes from a Difficult Case," winner of the Creative Nonfiction $10,000 Best Essay Award, Ruthann Robson, herself a lawyer, debates the potential effectiveness of her own medical malpractice suit. In "Burden of Oath," Linda Peeno tackles the medical ethics of HMOs. These and 9 other authors lend a personal perspective to problems in our health care system. This issue received generous support from the Jewish Healthcare Foundation of Western Pennsylvania.
This issue is out of print.
Table of Contents
Close Encounters of the Worst Kind Karen Wolk Feinstein
FROM THE EDITOR Lee Gutkind ... read more
Notes from a Difficult Case Ruthann Robson ... read more
The Agony and the Agony Deborah McDonald ... read more
Burden of Oath Linda Peeno
Babies as a Problem Richard Beach
A Merging of Head and Heart Judith Dancoff
Interesting Case: Do Not Discard Natalie Smith Parra
Hypoplastic Heart Ron Grant
The Last Train to Clarksville: A Journey Through Breast Cancer Diagnosis Cornelia Reynolds
Postpartum Nancy Linnon
Lessons from the Unlikely Erin Newport
The Right Thing Beth Kephart
Contributors
Richard Beach
Richard Beach is a board-certified neonatologist practicing in Albuquerque, NM. He has also spent many years caring for AIDS patients and... read more
Judith Dancoff
Judith Dancoff lives in Los Angeles, surrounded by several cats and many wonderful friends. Her fiction and essays have appeared in Other... read more
Karen Wolk Feinstein
Karen Wolk Feinstein, PhD is president and CEO of the Jewish Healthcare Foundation (JHF) and its two supporting organizations, the... read more
Ron Grant
Ron Grant left his pediatric practice in 1999 to write and is now a first year MFA student a the University of Arizona. He is at work on... read more
Beth Kephart
Beth Kephart, the author of five memoirs and several novels for young adults, is also the author of Handling the Truth: On the Writing of... read more
Nancy Linnon
Nancy Linnon is a freelance writer, editor and teacher in Tucson, Ariz., where she lives with her husband, Jesse Vladimirov, and their son... read more
Deborah McDonald
Deborah McDonald grew up in Pittsburgh during the 1950s. She is a freelance writer and food critic. read more
Erin Newport
Erin Newport has recently completed her MA in English at Kansas State University. She lives in Topeka with her husband and five children. read more
Natalie Smith Parra
Natalie Smith Parra is a native of Los Angeles, where she is at work on a book of creative nonfiction. She was recently awarded writing... read more
Linda Peeno
Linda Peeno is a physician whose sole patient is our seriously ill health care system. Her experience as a medical reviewer for a prominent... read more
Cornelia Reynolds
Cornelia Reynolds writes and gardens in Elk, Calif. read more
Ruthann Robson
Ruthann Robson, a professor of law and University Distinguished Professor at City University of New York, writes legal scholarship and... read more
