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  • Blogs

    February 4, 2011

    UCSF Gives Joe Olivares Hernandez, S.F. Man Beaten to Death, Medical Degree

    Joe O. Hernandez, MD​Although Joe Olivares Hernandez died four months before graduating from medical school, he still earned his degree. UCSF officials last week gave Hernandez's family his medical degree and set up a scholarship fund in his name.  Hernandez, 30, was brutally beaten to death ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 18, 2009

    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 hir ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 27, 2009

    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 P ... More >>

  • Calendar

    April 23, 2008

    I Want My Mommy

    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 P ... More >>

  • News

    April 9, 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?

  • News

    March 7, 2007

    Free Trade (in Doctors)

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

  • News

    August 11, 1999

    Inside the Big Floop

    Threatening Mount Zion means curtains for the clowns who have mismanaged the UCSF-Stanford hospital merger

  • News

    March 17, 1999

    What the Hellman Is Going on Here?

    UCSF Stanford finances hit the rocks

  • News

    January 14, 1998

    The Illusion of Roe V. Wade

    While feminists loudly celebrate the 25th anniversary of legalized abortion, quiet changes in the medical landscape make the procedure less and less available

  • News

    October 8, 1997

    Practice What You Teach

    UCSF students wish the medical school would tend to their health

  • News

    September 10, 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

  • News

    September 10, 1997

    The Merger's Tangled Web

    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

  • News

    January 29, 1997

    Pinstriped Medicine

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

  • News

    October 30, 1996

    Mulch

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

  • News

    May 1, 1996

    In Sickness and in Wealth

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

  • News

    April 17, 1996

    Phallus in Blunderland

    The insatiable desire for bigger and better lured thousands of men into the operating room for penile augmentation surgery. Now, one of the nation's top docs is trying to clean up the mess.

  • News

    May 17, 1995

    Why Medi-Cal Makes Doctors Sick

    Money, paperwork and stigma

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