"At the heart of this analysis is a projection of health care spending by the major players (Medicaid, Medicare and private insurance) that can be attributed solely to the aging of the state population. We also explore how an older population may impact the state's workforce and the state budget." -- P. 1.

Relates Miffy's experiences in the hospital.

You might think the biggest problem in medical care is that it costs too much. Or that health insurance is too expensive, too uneven, too complicated -- and gives you too many forms to fill out. But the central problem is that too much medical care has too little value. Dr. H. Gilbert Welch is worried about too much medical care. It's not to deny that some people get too little medical care, rather that the conventional concern about "too little"...

"[P]hysician and [...] author Louise Aronson's ELDERHOOD is a [...] look at a vital but often disparaged stage of life. For more than 5,000 years, 'old' has been defined as beginning between the ages of 60 and 70. That means most people alive today will spend more years in elderhood than in childhood, and many will be elders for 40 years or more. Yet at the very moment that humans are living longer than ever before, we've made old age into a disease,...

A biography of the American poet whose compassion led him to nurse soldiers during the Civil War, to give voice to the nation's grief at Lincoln's assassination, and to capture the true American spirit in verse.

A staff of doctors at a V.A. hospital do whatever it takes to provide the necessary medical care for ailing U.S. veterans.

A humorous look at the state of illness and medicine in Tudor England.

Three Korean War Army surgeons adopt a hilarious, lunatic lifestyle as an antidote to the tragedies of their Mobile Army Surgical Hospsital.

Audrey Parker's life changes forever when Pearl Harbor is attacked on December 7, 1941. Her brother, a talented young Navy pilot, had been stationed there. Fresh out of nursing school with a passion and a born gift for helping others, both Audrey and her friend Lizzie suddenly find their nation on the brink of war. Driven to do whatever they can to serve, they enlist in the Army and embark on a new adventure as flight nurses. Risking their lives on...