Thirty-five Years Covering Health Care: The More Things Change…

The health care industry has come a long way in the past 35 years, although in some areas very little has changed. Recently retired In Vivo editor Peter Charlish has seen most of the major developments, and in his final feature, he looks back at some of the big stories in a reporting career that began in the early 1980s.

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Peter Charlish, PhD

The health care industry has witnessed many changes in the past 35 years or so since I began reporting on it, yet in some ways very little seems to have changed. While there has been enormous progress in the treatment of many diseases, some of the challenges we faced back in the early 1980s remain today.

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