Healthcare

A Study to Estimate the Proportion of Health Care Practitioners Practicing in Underserved Areas. Final Report to the Bureau of Health Professionals, July 2005. (PDF 68 pages.)

Physician Distribution in Health Professional Shortage Areas: Supplemental Report to the Bureau of Health Professions, July 2005. (PDF 47 pages.)

Region II HHS Conference on Obesity: Looking Towards a Movement for Legislation on the Crisis of Obesity in the U.S. July 2004.

So Tired of Life (On the website of Health Affairs Magazine)
Dr. Neil Calman relates his experience with an elderly patient who asked to be helped to die. Health Affairs, Vol. 23 Issue 3, 2004.

No One Needs to Know (On the website of Health Affairs Magazine)
Dr. Neil Calman reflects on medical mistakes and medical secrecy. Health Affairs, Vol. 20, No.2, Mar/Apr 2001.

Family Medicine: A Vision for the Future
This address was delivered to the New York State Academy of Family Physicians on the occasion of Dr. Neil Calman's completion of his term as President in June 1998. It reflects upon the need for family physicians to adapt to the rapid changes in medical knowledge and technology. It goes on to encourage the work of family physicians in serving those in need and suggests that a single-payer system of health care financing and universal coverage are essential elements we must work to implement in the United States.