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Access to Medical Care
With so many conflicting opinions on health care filling the news media
and TV talk shows, it is important to understand, not only how the government
is trying to reduce rapidly increasing medical care costs, but what you, the reader,
can do to reduce your own medical costs while improving the quality of your
medical care, regardless of what finally emerges from Congress.
Dr. Dahlberg examines many of the factors affecting medical costs and suggests
some common-sense ways of controlling them.
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Bridge Ahead
“Well at least you don’t look like your picture, thank God!” The Dean
of Albany Medical School looked at me critically, glancing down again
at my application for the next year’s entering class. “Your college grades
aren’t all that good. What makes you think you can be a doctor?”
Scratch Albany, I thought, as I drove home. But that's why the wise pre-med
student applies to ten schools. As it turned out, I got accepted in two, and chose Syracuse.
And an unexpected bridge appeared in the form of a state scholarship that
paid most of my tuition
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Flame Tree
a novel of modern Burma When he took a break from American medical practice by returning to Burma to teach for a month, Dr. George Daniels and his wife, Vienna, had not expected to get involved in a war. But a renegade colonel with his own agenda disrupts the balance of power between the dictatorship and the insurgent hill armies, flooding the Thai border with refugees. George discovers information crucial to ending the conflict, and his wife is held hostage to prevent his using it at the Flame Tree truce conference.
Flame Tree is a story of an ordinary man who has always tried to avoid confrontation, but now finds himself in a mediator's role between a dictatorship and rebel armies fighting for survival.
It is also a story of a nation that has been seeking unity and peace with justice for more than fifty years. Flame Tree offers a vision of what the next steps toward that goal might be, when each side is willing listen to the other and negotiate in good faith. More about this book
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Edwin T. Dahlberg
Pastor, Peacemaker, Prophet (Biography) An historical figure in the 20th century search for peace and justice. Nationally recognized as a Protestant church leader, he preached that without both social justice and personal evangelism the Christian Gospel is not complete. But always, first and foremost, he was a competent and caring pastor to his church congregation. Dr. Dahlberg was President of the National Council of Churches from 1958 to 1961, successfully defending it against Senator Joseph McCarthy's charges of Communist infiltration during the Cold War era.
New Edition in paperback from Judson Press in July, 2010
In celebration of Judson Press's 185th anniversary, and in support of its interest in renewing titles in the social justice category,
Judson is issuing a second edition of Edwin T. Dahlberg's biography. The narrative text is the same, with an added foreword by Rev. Paul Raushenbush, Associate Dean of Religious Life at Princeton University and editor of the 100th anniversary edition of Walter Rauschenbusch's Christianity and the Social Crisis.
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