On the occasion of the author of Prozac Nation death this month, we recall the two full page article in The Financial Times in 2007 on the 20th anniversary of Prozac. Jessica Apple gives a very personal rendition of her experience with depression and her tribute to the miraculous treatment with Prozac. What some saw […]

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January 1: Three American patriots were born;            Paul Revere, a silversmith, in 1735            Betsy Ross, a flag maker in 1752            General “Mad” Anthony Wayne who led the charge on    British garrisons in 1745. January 1, 1863: President Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation. January 1, 1808: The U. S. Congress officially prohibited African […]

Without freedom of thought there can be no such thing as wisdom, and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech. –Ben Franklin Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter, and those who matter don’t mind.” ―Bernard M. Baruch When it comes to your health, […]

Meghan Markle, the American who’s said to have inveigled her way into the royal family and led hapless Harry astray. Popular sentiment agrees. The main story in the Daily Mail prompted 35,000 online comments from readers, a majority of them ill-disposed to the American arriviste. British tabloids describe the event as “Megxit,” compared with the […]

Theodore Dalrymple, a psychiatrist who regularly saw patients in an English Prison, has an interesting perspective of people and their incongruities. His latest encounter book In Praise of Prejudice draws some very interesting observations. He draws his definition from the Oxford Shorter Dictionary,  prejudice is: a previous judgement, especially a premature or hasty judgement. Preconceive […]

Dr. Rosen:       Dale Carnegie wrote: When dealing with people remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but with creatures of emotion. Isn’t that what we’re seeing in politics? Dr. Edwards:   That’s quite true when you think that humans have gone through millennia in all forms of servitude and in the 18th century devised […]

“Medicare-for-all will give everyone healthcare” is a total illusion. Socialized medicine is the prevalent form of healthcare in the majority of countries throughout the world. In no country has it given as full a coverage as the United States. Mandates are the opposite of freedom and they never succeed. Where they fail is not apparent […]

A new study, called “F as in Fat: How Obesity Threatens America’s Future 2012” predicts that at least half of Americans in 39 states will be obese—about 30 pounds overweight—by 2030. This will fuel millions more cases of diabetes, heart disease and stroke and could bring our already overburdened health care system to its knees. […]