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Robert Lowes is listed as Journalist, Self-employed at Self-employed, based in St Louis, Missouri, United States. AeroLeads shows a matched LinkedIn profile for Robert Lowes.
Robert Lowes previously worked as Journalist at Self-Employed and Reporter at Medscape Medical News. Robert Lowes holds Ba, Mass Communications from Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville.
For the past 30 years, I have specialized in reporting on health care. It's a microcosm of society, where science, ethics, law, politics, technology, and entrepreneurship alternately blend and contend, all against the backdrop of human mortality. For 10 years, I was a reporter and editor at Medical Economics, considered a "Bible" for physicians wanting nuts-and-bolts help on running a practice. I wrote two articles about a Tucson eye surgeon--and self-confessed shoplifter and drug addict--who was convicted of conspiring (successfully) to kill a competitor. And one month after Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast, I visited New Orleans and Bayou La Batre, AL, with notebook and camera to report on how the catastrophe affected doctors there. More recently, I logged nearly eight years at Medscape Medical News, a WebMD publication for clinicians. As its breaking news reporter, I wrote about health-care reform legislation, a succession of infectious disease outbreaks starting with the 2009 swine flu epidemic and ending with Ebola, malpractice insurance, Medicare fraud, opioid "pill mills," and the deaths of both the illustrious and infamous in medicine, C Everett Koop and Jack Kevorkian being two examples. One highlight was covering the oral arguments in the two Supreme Court cases about the Affordable Care Act, the first in 2012, the second in 2015. My work outside the health-care beat demonstrates journalistic versatility. I’ve investigated extremist groups like the Council of Conservative Citizens, compared the music of the St. Louis and Chicago symphony orchestras, explored the New Age subculture of St. Louis, forecasted the economy for commercial painters, dissected the seed industry for soybean farmers, and profiled two university presidents, a slumlord philanthropist, media mogul Ralph Ingersoll II, and a hemophiliac boy stricken by AIDS.
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The Progressive magazine has published stories of mine about tobacco sales in Walgreens (https://progressive.org/magazine/walgreens-on-the-corner-of-happy-and-hypocritical) and voter suppression (https://progressive.org/magazine/how-voter-suppression-imperils-the-midterms).December Magazine recently published my Q & A with Jesse Lee Kercheval, a novelist.
I covered breaking news on all aspects of medicine--clinical research, FDA drug recalls, physician compensation, influenza, electronic health records, and healthcare reform legislation, to name a few.
I wrote for a variety of health-care industry publications, including Diversion, Physicians Practice, Healthcare Informatics, MedPage Today, Medscape, and Connexion. I also contribute to publications outside of health care such as Painting and Wallcovering Contractor and the St. Louis Beacon.
I wrote features, investigative pieces, and how-to articles for a variety of general-interest and trade publications. A partial list of these publications follows.Carpet RetailingClub ManagementFamily Practice ManagementHome MechanixMedical Ethics AdvisorMedical Tribune Medical World NewsThe New PhysicianPainting and Wallcovering ContractorRiverfront.
I covered St. Louis area businesses in general and the transportation and hospitality industries in particular.
I covered county and municipal governing bodies, school districts, and the St. Louis County Police Department, in addition to working as a general assignment reporter.
Activities and Societies: I helped edit Natural Bridge, the university's literary journal. I won the UMSL graduate prize in poetry in 2005.
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Robert Lowes holds Ba, Mass Communications from Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville.
Robert Lowes is listed with skills including Copy Editing, Editing, Publications, Web Content, Publishing, Proofreading, Feature Articles, and Newsletters.
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