Improving Public Education; A Difficult but Critical Task
Since the founding of our nation there has been consensus that a well-functioning democracy requires an educated citizenry (Ref.1). However, our
Continue readingEntertaining, Educating, and Criticizing Our Broken Healthcare System for 22 Years
Since the founding of our nation there has been consensus that a well-functioning democracy requires an educated citizenry (Ref.1). However, our
Continue readingUnlike Social Security paying a specific amount, Medicare and Medicaid are open-ended with the individual removed from determining the amount
Continue readingWith today’s advanced molecular biology techniques, the accidental release of a disease enhanced virion from a purely scientific laboratory can
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Continue readingWe in the West have repeatedly pursued a failed policy of trying to eliminate the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus,
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Continue reading“There is a great danger in refusing to believe things you do not like” was Winston Churchill’s response to Neville
Continue readingThe benefit a nation derives from having a highly educated and productive group of citizens was evident post W.W. II. Over
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Continue readingWe face a unique challenge in our nation. As our technological age advances with the skills required for employment increasing, our
Continue readingThe SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has brought out the worst from our medical leadership, press, social media sites and politicians. Differing viewpoints
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Continue readingThe 19th century author Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley in 1818, at the age of 21, wrote, Frankenstein, sometimes called the “Modern Prometheus”, considered
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Continue readingAs quoted by the Wall Street Journal, Senator Elizabeth Warren said during a recent Senate Finance hearing discussing intellectual property
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Continue readingIn the late 1950s my father was a patient in one of the major Boston hospitals suffering from cancer of
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Continue readingThe anti-Vietnam warriors of the 1960s and mid 1970s and their trainees are now the senior leadership in most institutions
Continue readingA basic tenant of medicine is that every person is unique requiring tailoring of therapies to meet his or her
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Continue readingDr. Rice, U.S. Secretary of State 2005-2009 and now director of the Hoover Institute, Stanford University, recently mentioned that, “I
Continue readingA deadly virus, SARS CoV-2, causing the disease Covid-19, came out of Wuhan China with its worldwide spread propelled by
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Continue readingWe know in precise detail what medical students are charged and the debt they assume, but the actual cost to
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Continue readingIt appears when thinking about healthcare and education our political leaders have forgotten the critical thinking of the father of
Continue readingThe infectious disease section of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has had many wonderful successes in fighting diseases, for
Continue readingMedicaid, originally to provide medical care for the poor and disabled, was passed in 1965 almost as an afterthought, along
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Continue readingFor centuries a basic concept of medicine has been to find and treat diseases as early as possible. This is the
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