About Health Politics

"Health Politics with Dr. Mike Magee" is a weekly Internet program covering news and information related to health and health care. Since its inception in 2003, Health Politics has produced 182 programs on a variety of health topics.

Starting in the summer of 2007, Health Politics will still be offered as a weekly program, but will no longer be producing new content. Instead, the homepage will be updated each week with one of the 182 programs in our archives. You can still subscribe to the program to receive an email alert when the homepage is updated, or we encourage you to access and use our archives directly. Each program in the archives includes a video, a transcript, related links, a downloadable mp3, and discussion guide questions, among other educational and informative tools.

Health Politics programs are hosted by health leader and media expert Mike Magee, M.D. As a passionate advocate for patients and their families, Dr. Magee has strived to help viewers understand the big picture of how our health care system works and how it affects our lives. He offers practical advice on what we need to do to make the system work more effectively for all of us. Dr. Magee continues to share his views on health and health care at www.HealthCommentary.com.

About the Pfizer Medical Humanities Initiative
Health Politics is supported by the Pfizer Medical Humanities Initiative, an education and research project founded in 1997 and supported by Pfizer Inc. In addition to worldwide studies of health care, leadership and the patient-physician relationship, the initiative supports numerous scholarship and grant programs for physicians, medical students and patient groups.

How You Can Use Health Politics
Health Politics is primarily an educational tool, but we encourage you to use it in any way that suits your needs. Here are just a few examples:

  • Send Health Politics to your colleagues or friends who are interested in health issues.
  • Download the slide shows and transcripts to make presentations to others.
  • Use information from our various health channels for research purposes.
  • Share what you learn from Health Politics with key opinion leaders in health care.
  • Use the information in the classroom or for seminars and discussion groups.