It’s high time Washington politicians and public health pooh-bahs stop treating people like children, ignoring scientific evidence and acting in destructive and arbitrary ways.
Category: Policy
It is time to make a dent in social determinants of health
As a doctor, it is pretty humbling to reflect on the fairly minimal impact our health care system has on individuals’ overall health. One study I find particularly intriguing shows that socioeconomic factors (e.g., education and income), and physical e…
Medical malpractice: Don’t let the minority define us
When we shake our heads at the snake oil salesmen of yesteryears and wonder how the people then could have been so naïve as to fall for the crude shenanigans, we are wearing blinders with our eyes wide open. Malpractice remains alive and well. Those wh…
Medical malpractice: Don’t let the minority define us
When we shake our heads at the snake oil salesmen of yesteryears and wonder how the people then could have been so naïve as to fall for the crude shenanigans, we are wearing blinders with our eyes wide open. Malpractice remains alive and well. Those wh…
As Covid Rages And Key Medicines Run Out, GOP Lawmakers Have Restricted Public Health Powers In At Least 26 States
Republican legislators have passed laws restricting officials’ ability to deploy standard means of infection control, including quarantine, issuing mask mandates and closing businesses.
Lawmakers don’t care for our patients. Doctors do.
On September 1st, 2021, Texas Senate Bill 8 went into effect. While the law’s stated goal is to severely limit a woman’s constitutional right to an abortion in Texas, it also designates private citizens to sue not just abortion providers, but an…
European Union Plans U.S.-Inspired Agency To Fight Future Pandemics
In addition to the new agency, the bloc will also donate an extra 200 million Covid-19 vaccine doses to low- and middle-income countries.
No one is in charge of the free-for-all that is U.S. health care
During these solemn high holy days of repentance and reckoning, millions of Jews around the world beseech God to stop COVID-19 from spreading and ending lives. Although it can be soothing and reassuring to believe that the universe is governed by a su…
Democrats’ Latest Attempt To Expand Medicare Would Hurt Seniors
But adding dental coverage to traditional Medicare is imprudent and unnecessary. In the long run, it could even reduce seniors’ ability to access quality dental care
20 Years After 9/11: U.S. Marks Anniversary Of Attacks (In Photos)
The 20th anniversary of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, was marked by the loved ones of victims and first responders in memorial events in New York, the capital area and rural Pennsylvania at the places where coordinated attackers crashed …
