A 30-year-old female came in for her appointment. She never looked me in the eye. Her eyes were roving from one side of me to the other. When I asked her what she was looking at, she stated that she wasn’t sure. She wasn’t looking at me and seemed unfocused. Her husband stated that she […]

Review: Paul Kalanithi’s When Breath Becomes Air is an exquisitely moving exploration of mortality SANDRA MARTIN Special to The Globe and Mail Paul Kalanithi’s memoir, When Breath Becomes Air, begins with a wallop. A neurosurgical resident in his final year of training, he’s examining the CT scans of a patient with Stage 4 lung cancer. He’s […]

My Last Day as a Surgeon By Paul Kalanithi In May of 2013, the Stanford University neurosurgical resident Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with Stage IV metastatic lung cancer. He was thirty-six years old. In his two remaining years—he died in March of 2015—he continued his medical training, became the father to a baby girl, and wrote […]

Dr. Rosen:      Well, it looks like Donald Trump is gaining and winning. What does that mean for our country? Dr. Edwards:  I was not a Trump fan when this all started.  But after surveying the landscape, he may understand the “lay of the land.” Dr. Milton:      The UK has a similar boisterous Johnson who even looks […]

For those of us who love comedy, one of the most delightful ironies of progressivism is how regressive it is, how mired in the past. While conservatives gather to discuss fresh reformist ideas on how to fight poverty, Regressives think spending more will reduce the cost. See section 2 above. BE NOT THE FIRST BY […]

What started as a baffling skirmish on the wilder shores of victim culture has now turned into something more menacing Melanie Phillips Once upon a time, ‘binary’ was a mathematical term. Now it is an insult on a par with ‘racist’, ‘sexist’ or ‘homophobic’, to be deployed as a weapon in our culture wars. The […]

The Second Wave of Socialism in 1965 after the first wave of FDR Social Security.  Why do the young love Bernie Sanders? Because their experience of capitalism is different. By Peggy Noonan | The Wall Street Journal | Jan 29, 2016 I was watching Bernie Sanders speak last week at a town hall in Bedford […]

For those of us who love comedy, one of the most delightful ironies of progressivism is how regressive it is. Novelist Andrew Klavan writing online for PJ Media, Jan. 11 For those of us who love comedy, one of the most delightful ironies of progressivism is how regressive it is, how mired in the past. […]

Mark E. Mishanie and Michael S. Swisher – Editorial The following is an exchange is between Mark E. Mishanie, a subscriber to The St. Croix Review, and Michael S. Swisher, the Chairman of the Board of Religion and Society, the foundation that publishes The St. Croix Review. Islamic ideology must be ultimately defeated. ISIS, al-Qaeda, […]

This report is an annual survey of physicians, from across the country, which examines the total wait time faced by patients across 12 medical specialties. The study reports a median wait time — from referral by a general practitioner (ie: a family doctor) to consultation with a specialist, and subsequent receipt of treatment — of 18.3 […]