About Medical Lessons

The main idea of this blog is to con­sider news about health care, and how that is com­mu­ni­cated in various media forms including news­papers, aca­demic journals, mag­a­zines, the Internet, radio, TV and film.

The author is a human being who rec­og­nizes that, as such, she cannot be strictly objective about any­thing. Because she values trans­parency in jour­nalism, she strives to be up-​​front about her back­ground and expe­ri­ences that might influence her writing con­sciously or uncon­sciously. The views expressed on this website have no rela­tionship what­soever to any aca­demic insti­tution with which the author is affiliated.

There is no com­mercial or agency spon­sorship of this website. Readers may notice some ads; their purpose is pri­marily to cover the costs of main­taining the site. The author and pub­lisher of Medical Lessons will not know if any par­ticular person clicks on an ad or makes a pur­chase through a third-​​party vendor, like Amazon, Barnes & Noble, or a Google-​​sponsored link. Medical Lessons does not accept payment for links in text or images.

Updated June, 2012