WHO OWNS YOUR BODY?: Doctors and Patients Behind Bars by Madeleine Pelner Cosman, PhD, Esq., Praeger Publishing, (www.praeger.com)Westport, Connecticut ISBN: 0‑313-0327‑2 In 1993, Dr Madeleine Pelner Cosman, a health care attorney, reviewed Medicare and Medicaid litigation and legislation from their beginnings. She was startled to discover that the law most of us accepted as primarily […]

CURRENT BOOKS |  Miraculous Medical Tales | by Brien A. Seeley, MD Extreme Medicine: How Exploration Transformed Medicine in the Twentieth Century, Kevin Fong, MD, Penguin (2014) | 304 pages, It’s amazing what a body can stand —Third-year resident observation My Father-in-law, the late Dr. Lyle Powell Jr., taught me the axiom that “to best […]

The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care Marin Medicine – The magazine of the Marin Medical Society           TR Reid, 304 pages, Penguin (2010). CURRENT BOOKS Peter Bretan, MD The United States spends the largest proportion of GNP (17%) for health care of any country in the world, without […]

CURRENT BOOKS: More Happiness, Less War Brien A. Seeley, MD Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason and the Gap Between Us and Them, Joshua Greene, 432 pages, Penguin (2013). Think about your mom and dad. Remember their unconditional loving-kindness, their memorable storytelling and their exemplariness. Tenderly whisper your thanks to them for your precious morality, your compass […]

Versions of Academic Freedom Reviewed by Peter Wood | Oct 27, 2014 This article originally appeared on Minding the Campus on October 24, 2014. Whatever their ostensible subjects, Stanley Fish’s books tend to be about Stanley Fish. His new one, Versions of Academic Freedom, extends the conceit. Which is not to say that the book […]

Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End, Atul Gawande, MD, Metropolitan, (2014). Rick Flinders, MD, and Jessica Flinders, FNP Sonoma Medicine | The Magazine of the Sonoma County Medical Association Atul Gawande has done it again. With his writer’s craft, he has directed a surgeon’s precision at yet another of the great maladies […]

Miraculous Medical Tales by Brien A. Seeley, MD, Sonoma Medicine My father-in-law, the late Dr. Lyle Powell Jr., taught me the axiom that “to best understand something complex, one should examine its extremes.” This examination not only clarifies the thing’s limits; it reveals what inner workings impose those limits. That revelation is precisely the result […]

The Back Page by Matthew Schmitz First Things | August/September 2016 Donald Trump is a man of faith. It’s true that during his presidential campaign he has demeaned women, mocked the disabled, and praised the abortionists of Planned Parenthood; that his early exploits include repeated adulterous affairs, about which he boasts, and a failed attempt […]

The National Center for Policy Analysis, John C Goodman, PhD, President, who along with Gerald L. Musgrave, and Devon M. Herrick wrote Lives at Risk, issues a weekly Health Policy Digest, a health summary of the full NCPA daily report. You may log on at www.ncpa.org and register to receive one or more of these […]

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