Table of Contents:
  • (cont) Health-care reform: impact on academic medical centers' role in caring for poor patients / Denise Soffel and Harold S. Luft
  • Introduction / Dennis Flanagan
  • Historical perspective on the role of physicians and academic hospitals in the care of poor patients / Kenneth M. Ludmerer
  • Aging population / T. Franklin Williams
  • Governance of teaching hospitals: its implications for education and the quality of care / Robert E. Tranquada
  • Vulnerabilities of poor people: epidemiological and educational perspectives / Peter V. Lee
  • Accessibility of medical care for the poor: effect of the health-care system / Martin F. Shapiro
  • Child health, poverty and medical education / Neal Halfon
  • Trends in the ability of poor people to obtain care: medical education and the care of poor patients in teaching settings / John Noble
  • Caring for uninsured and medicaid patients: the role of teaching hospitals / E. Richard Brown
  • Medicare, teaching hospitals and care for poor patients / Grace M. Carter and Albert F. Williams
  • Physician-payment reform and health service for the poor and medically underserved: how do they fit? / Philip R. Lee