Primary care doctors in short supply - Commercial Appeal

Published: March 06, 2011 
Daniel Talley was my first patient the morning after Congress passed health care reform a year ago. Talley is a soft-spoken truck driver and for most of the past 10 years has endured two kinds of pain: needle stabs from insulin injections to control diabetes and lack of health insurance. Read More

Hospitals taking over from private practices - Commercial Appeal

Published: February 14, 2011
by Dr. Manoj Jain
A decade and a half ago, when I moved to Memphis, I proudly hung a sign outside an office I shared with another doctor. It had my name followed by an MD. I had started my own small business as a solo practitioner in medicine.

Over the years, the practice has grown. I now have several employees and my own office, with the names of several other doctors alongside mine on the sign. Read More

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Hospitals' focus on patient safety hasn't eliminated preventable deaths - Washington Post

Published: December 20, 2010
Some years ago, I got a call at 3 a.m. from the hospital because a patient of mine had spiked a high fever. Suspecting an infection, I called in some antibiotics. A few hours later, a frantic nurse called to say my patient had turned red and was wheezing, likely from an allergic reaction. Read More

Home remedies - Commercial Appeal

Answers to rising health costs will be found in local communities, with doctors, hospitals and patients taking new roles in the delivery of care.

I took a penlight, peered into my daughter's mouth and saw two fiery-red, cherry-sized tonsils.


"My throat is killing me," she said. Read more

Force that bonds us is stronger than what divides - Commercial Appeal

On an unusually quiet Sunday afternoon in the intensive care unit, Memphian Kristen Sharp lay in bed attached to a heart pump. Her tightly braided hair was pulled to the side of her thin, brown face. She gave me a beaming smile. It was Halloween day, and life had played many tricks on her, but today she was getting a treat. Read More

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