Nursing: What’s Left out of the Health Care Reform Debate...

"Nursing: What’s Left out of the Health Care Reform Debat and Why it Matters"

Hosted by Suffolk University Law School
The Forum features lectures, meetings and other health law and policy activities.

November 16, 2009
12:00 - 1:30 p.m.
Function Room - 1th Floor

Suzanne Gordon

Suzanne Gordon is a freelance journalist and author who writes about political culture, women’s issues, nursing, and health care. She is the author or editor of twelve books, including Life Support: Three Nurses on the Front Lines (Little, Brown and Company 1997), and the award-winning Nursing Against the Odds: How Health Care Cost-Cutting, Media Stereotypes and Medical Hubris Undermine Nurses and Patient Care (Cornell University Press 2005).  Her latest book, Safety in Numbers: Nurse-to-Patient Ratios and the Future of Health Care (Cornell University Press 2008), addresses staffing ratios in California and Victoria, Australia.  Ms. Gordon has written over 350 articles for major national magazines and newspapers such as the New York Times, Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Atlantic Monthly, The Nation, Toronto Globe and Mail, Harpers and Mother Jones.  She has also been a radio columnist for CBS Radio News and a health care commentator for Public Radio International’s Marketplace, and served as a member of the National Advisory Committee on the Nursing Shortage for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.  Ms. Gordon holds a BA degree from Cornell University and did graduate work at Johns Hopkins University.

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