Subject: Medical Schools

• Why Medi-Cal Makes Doctors Sick

  May 17, 1995

• Survey: U.C. San Francisco Raked In $366 Million in Fiscal '08

  Show your support with a shirt -- or, say, $366 millionThe best way to get rich: Be rich. A survey released this week by the Council for Aid to Education ranked the Top-20 fund-raising universities in the realm, and our local schools did us proud. Stanford and U.C. Berkeley bookended the list: The Palo Alto school came first with  $785 million and U.C. Berkeley rounded things out at $285 million. And, coming in at No. 14 was one of the more anomalous schools, U.C. San Francisco, with $366 m

  February 27, 2009

• Phallus in Blunderland

  April 17, 1996

• In Sickness and in Wealth

  May 1, 1996

• I Want My Mommy

  April 23, 2008

• Whistleblower

  By most accounts, David Kessler's four years as UCSF's medical school dean were a rip-roaring success. So why was he fired?

  April 9, 2008

• Free Trade (in Doctors)

  If physicians really cared about our health, they'd drop their iron wall against immigrant doctors

  March 7, 2007

• Inside the Big Floop

  August 11, 1999

• What the Hellman Is Going on Here?

  March 17, 1999

• The Illusion of Roe V. Wade

  January 14, 1998

• Practice What You Teach

  October 8, 1997

• Giving Away the Hospital

  University of California regents are set to vote next week on finalizing a merger of the UCSF Medical Center with Stanford University's health service. Supporters claim the merger -- a transfer of $380 million in public assets to the private sector -- is

  September 10, 1997

• The Merger's Tangled Web

  September 10, 1997

• Pinstriped Medicine

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

  January 29, 1997

• Mulch

  October 30, 1996

• Republican Senator Wades Into UCSF Financial Morass; Echoes Complaints of Fired Dean Profiled By SF Weekly

  Dr. David KesslerOur paper's regular readers may recall a gem penned in April of last year by Ron Russell, in which he profiled Dr. David Kessler, the former dean of U.C. San Francisco Medical School ousted after years of complaining about "alleged financial malfeasance at the institution he was hired to lead." Is Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) one of our readers? Not likely. But, Either way, the Los Angeles Times reports that the senator sent a letter to UCSF demanding a proper accounting of ho

  June 18, 2009