It should be reasonably safe for me to write about the Mayo Clinic in Rochester Minnesota, since the Mayo doesn’t do much in Rhode Island. According to press reports, the […]
Michael Fine, MD
Michael Fine, MD, is a writer, community organizer, and family physician. He is the chief health strategist for the City of Central Falls, RI, and a former Director of the Rhode Island Department of Health, 2011–2015. He is currently the Board Vice Chair and Co-Founder of the Scituate Health Alliance, and is the recipient of the Barbara Starfield Award, the John Cunningham Award, and the June Rockwell Levy Public Service Award. He is the author of several books, medical, novels and short stories, including On Medicine and Colonialism, Rhode Island Stories, and The Bull and Other Stories, You can learn more about Michael at www.michaelfinemd.com
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Michael Fine: What’s crazy in health care today
In the United States, we have a health care market, not a health care system that provides the same set of essential services to all Americans. We’ve all gotten used […]