Talk:Health care delivery

This article contains a lot of useful information. However, I am concerned that it is somewhat biassed and may also benefit from being renamed as it is focussed on history rather healthcare delivery. There is already an article on Healthcare systems --Vincej 13:13, 1 September 2005 (UTC)

Misleading title
I find this an interesting article, but the title "Healthcare delivery" is misleading. The text covers only a small aspect of what you expect to find under healthcare delivery. Why not rename it "Health care without face-to-face contact" or similar? -- Robert, 9/9/2005

Controversial article on healthcare delivery?
I am the author of the article on Healthcare delivery. I would be quite interested and willing to discuss and change the contents that could be viewed as controversial.

May I mention my background briefly? (Please do not view this as preening.) I am a neurologist and an academic with health indurance experience. I have written scientific and peer-reviewed articles since 1972.

My intent in writing this article was to show that cybermedicine is not a new phenomenon and its equivalents have existed for centuries. I do not wish to put down any system of belief. If I have done so, it is nunientional. Of course, I ought to alter parts that carry factual errors. Please point these out. Again, if there are areas that you could improve, do let me know. Smurti 21:53, 17 September 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for the feedback, & my responses.
Robert and Vincej:

THANKS for your feedbacks. I am glad that you fiind my work interesting and useful...pleases me. There was also another contributor who cleaned up my formatting. I owe gratitude to that person, too.

I agree that I was also ambivalent about the title. The current holding title of "History" of healthcare delivery is acceptable to me. But, should I come up with somethhing even better I will put that in. Meanwhile, this being my FIRST wiki-artcile, I am treading with some hesitation. My background has been publication via traditional academic and orthodox peer-reviewed media.

By the way, how would I identify this article as emanating from me (some way of identifying authorship and the responsibilities that go with it)?

Another question is this: I have legible copies of two illustrations (of written letters) that go back to the Brinkley period (circa 1932). They will augment my article by showing how they used the radio and written letters back then as media for medical consultations. I have copyright release also from our Kansas State Archives to publish them. I would like to add them to my article.

Thanks for your interest, Vincej and Robert. Smurti 14:38, 17 September 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for the feedback, & my responses.
Robert and Vincej:

THANKS for your feedbacks. I am glad that you fiind my work interesting and useful...pleases me. There was also another contributor who cleaned up my formatting. I owe gratitude to that person, too.

I agree that I was also ambivalent about the title. The current holding title of "History" of healthcare delivery is acceptable to me. But, should I come up with something even better I will put that in. Meanwhile, this being my FIRST wiki-artcile, I am treading with some hesitation. My background has been publication via traditional academic and orthodox peer-reviewed media.

By the way, how would I identify this article as emanating from me (some way of identifying authorship and the responsibilities that go with it)?

Another question is this: I have legible copies of two illustrations (of written letters) that go back to the Brinkley period (circa 1932). They will augment my article by showing how they used the radio and written letters back then as media for medical consultations. I have due copyright releases also from our Kansas State Archives to publish them. I would like to add them to my article.

Thanks for your interest, Vincej and Robert.

Merge into healthcare
This article does not seem to have got off the ground so I have proposed that it be merged into the main article on healthcare --Vince 08:34, 9 June 2006 (UTC)


 * Sounds good to me. -AED 10:00, 24 July 2006 (UTC)