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Government Shutdown: Did the Civil War End?

Civil War House, Circa 1863, Mathew Brady

Jim Stubenrauch is a CHMP senior fellow.

Tomorrow, Saturday, April 9, will be the 146th anniversary of General Robert E. Lee’s surrender to Lt. General Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House, Virginia. I happen to know this because I spent several hours this past week watching The Civil War, the 1990 documentary by Ken Burns. Like many millions of other viewers, I’ve seen bits and pieces of it over the years. PBS stations tend to haul it out during pledge drives, but even without the fundraising breaks, I find it’s hard enough to stay with a multipart television show spread over several nights. In any case, by now it’s been aired so many times and so many of the images it contains are so familiar that, I suspect, many people have the impression they’ve seen it all even if they really haven’t.

I found out this week that I hadn’t really seen much of this documentary.

Plight of Patients Who are Insured by Medicaid: cards without access

Guest post by Carol F. Roye, EdD,

Bring on the Heat: Public Health Leaders Pitch Ban on Tobacco Use to MLB

Barbara Glickstein is the Co-Director of the

Will Politics Sink A Health Care Hero?

William M. Silberg, Senior Fellow & Chair

Nursing It Yo!

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LOVE AMONG THE RUINS

It’s hard to think of anything these days except

Rachel Hadas’s Poem “In the Taxi to the MRI”

Joy Jacobson is CHMP’s poet-in-residence. Rachel Hadas, a

On the Clearings of Narrative Medicine

Jim Stubenrauch is a writer and editor

Jason Shinder’s Poem “At Sunset”

Joy Jacobson is a poet, journalist, editor,

Political Cartoon: “Overheard In The Unemployment Line” by Joel Pett

Used with the permission of Joel