Liberals Are Killing the Liberal Arts This is how bad censorship is getting: Discussions of what can’t be said come with a ‘trigger warning.’ By Harvey Silverglate, WSJ Nov. 9, 2014 5:59 p.m. ET On campuses across the country, hostility toward unpopular ideas has become so irrational that many students, and some faculty members, now […]

An International Battle Against an Unconventional Foe by Gerard W. Gawalt Ruthless, unconventional foes are not new to the United States of America. More than two hundred years ago the newly established United States made its first attempt to fight an overseas battle to protect its private citizens by building an international coalition against an unconventional […]

Hospital administrators are being paid two to ten times as much money as they pay their physicians in the groups they are purchasing and managing. Perhaps it is time that physicians read Malcolm Gladwell’s piece in the New Yorker: Why do we pay our stars so much money? There was a time, not so long […]

DAVID HOWARD | PATIENT | MAY 30, 2015 I’ve been volunteering in an emergency department of a Southern Californian community hospital for five years. I clean gurneys, stock shelves, provide support for RNs and EMTs and translate for Spanish-speaking patients. Since my job requires minimal intellectual effort, I’ve had considerable time to observe the staff and contemplate the inspiring […]

DIKE DRUMMOND, MD | PHYSICIAN | MARCH 14, 2013 In these early days of pay for performance (P4P) reimbursement, as the size of your paycheck begins to reflect your patient satisfaction scores, let’s have a frank discussion about three important topics all healthcare providers and organizations must understand going forward. 1. How your performance will be measured 2. How […]

My Antibusiness Business Education Liberal politicians might say the economy is ‘rigged.’ But a business school? By MATTHEW T. TICE | WSJ | Feb 19, 2016 Since the 2008 financial crisis, the business world has come under fire, with public attacks on Wall Street greed, big banks and wealthy Americans. With the 2016 election just […]

Galen, a second-century Greek physician and philosopher, rose from gladiators’ physician in Asia Minor to court physician in the Rome of Marcus Aurelius. He is considered the most important physician of the ancient world after Hippocrates. Galen had an inquiring mind and was anxious to form his own independent judgments. His knowledge was equally great […]

Dr. Trudeau was a forward-thinking physician whose vision spurred the founding of the ATS, as well as its growth as a world-renowned leader in lung research and education over the last hundred-plus years. To recognize his distinguished achievements and honor those who share his vision, the Foundation of the ATS has established the Edward Livingston […]

In 1890 the German physician and bacteriologist Robert Koch set out his celebrated criteria for judging whether a given bacteria is the cause of a given disease. Koch’s criteria brought some much-needed scientific clarity to what was then a very confused field. Read more…

If one were to choose among the greatest benefactors of humanity, Louis Pasteur would certainly rank at the top. He solved the mysteries of rabies, anthrax, chicken cholera, and silkworm diseases, and contributed to the development of the first vaccines. He debunked the widely accepted myth of spontaneous generation, thereby setting the stage for modern […]