Health Care Plans

More Proof Caffeine = The Devil

South to the Future

For Baby Boomers, the Doctor Is in ... the Bathroom

Bitter Medicine

How Naiveté, greed, and the new new thing brought Brown & Toland, San Francisco's largest doctors' group, to the verge of bankruptcy

Drug Warfare

A Marin pharmacist sticks up for the little guys, and gets run over

Dog Bites

A Marin pharmacist sticks up for the little guys, and gets run over

Sutter's Giant Sucking Sound

Sutter Health, which owns one of California's largest hospital empires, is a nonprofit, tax-exempt charity. Critics wonder why Sutter dispenses so little charity, and vacuums so much profit, from the hospitals it acquires.

Dog Bites

Sutter Health, which owns one of California's largest hospital empires, is a nonprofit, tax-exempt charity. Critics wonder why Sutter dispenses so little charity, and vacuums so much profit, from the hospitals it acquires.

Unhealthy Debate

There's a new and nasty labor-management war. Health care is the battlefield. San Francisco is the front line.

Pinstriped Medicine

How the UCSF-Stanford hospital merger foreshadows the new -- and sometimes frightening -- world of health care

The Grid

How the UCSF-Stanford hospital merger foreshadows the new -- and sometimes frightening -- world of health care

Dog Bites

How the UCSF-Stanford hospital merger foreshadows the new -- and sometimes frightening -- world of health care

In Sickness and in Wealth

It's merge or be merged out for teaching hospitals like Stanford's and UCSF's

Hep Help

It's merge or be merged out for teaching hospitals like Stanford's and UCSF's

Why Medi-Cal Makes Doctors Sick

Money, paperwork and stigma