Carlene Roberts Rose Into Management When Female Executives Were Nearly Unknown JOURNALISTS IN 1950S NOTED THE AIRLINE VICE PRESIDENT AS MUCH FOR LOOKS AS SKILLS; ‘A VERY HOT-LOOKING DISH’ By James R. Hagerty | WSJ | Nov. 9, 2018 When Carlene Roberts was named a vice president of American Airlines in 1951, newspapers treated her as […]

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Jan 11, 49 BC: Caesar crossed the Rubicon River in January. Jan 2, 1900: Queen Victoria admitted she wasn’t amused. Jan 3, 1882: Oscar Wilde to customs officials: “I have nothing to declare but my genius.” On Jan, 1920, The U. S. government declared a war on the “demon alcohol” by passing the Eighteenth Amendment. 

He who moves not forward goes backward. –Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Only a man’s character is the real criterion of worth. –Eleanor Roosevelt If you don’t know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere. –Henry Kissinger It’s more fun to be a pirate than to join the Navy. –Steve Jobs We are […]

Medical care is a professional service, not a right. Rights (as to life, liberty, and property) may be defended by force, if necessary. Professional services are subject to economic laws, such as supply and demand, and are not properly procured by force. Physicians are professionals. Professionals are agents of their patients or clients, not of […]

A legendary American Dive-Bomber Pilot Remembers The Battle of Midway by N. Jack “Dusty” Kleiss with Timothy and Laura Orr Awarded the Navy Cross The Foreword is written by Jill Kleiss in the first person referring to the author as “dad.” She learned much about her father’s Navy experience at dinner time during which he […]

Columnist Charles Krauthammer wrote a weekly political column that ran on Fridays. He was also a Fox News commentator and appeared nightly on “Special Report with Bret Baier.” Krauthammer joined The Post as a columnist in 1984, and he received the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 1987 for “his witty and insightful columns on national […]

Dr. Rosen:      We have a new government that will take effect this month. What will that mean for physicians and healthcare? Dr. Edwards:  There is a lot of smoke but I don’t see any fire that can be put out. Dr. Milton:      There will be the usual and continued push to make our profession the […]

Gerard J. Gianoli, MD, Neuro-otologist             http://earandbalance.net/our-physicians/gerard-j-gianoli-md/ Third-Party-Free means that we do not participate with ANY third party (Medicare, Medicaid, HMOs, Tri-Care, Workers Comp, Motor Vehicle No Fault, insurers etc).  Because we have no contract with any third-party payer, we have no conflict of interest with our patients. We are not subject to the coercion, […]

Governor Jerry Brown who is 80-years-old is finishing his second of two 8-year terms. His campaign fund is still flush with money which will allow him to continue to be active politically. He leaves the governor’s office on Jan 7, 2019 with a $14.8-billion surplus which he passes on to Democratic Governor-elect Gavin Newsom. This […]