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Featured Article: There’s no need to dread conflict during dinner
Finding common ground with liberals at Thanksgiving
By Kay Coles James, President, Heritage Foundation
With Thanksgiving approaching, a common complaint I hear is that the mix of political views at holiday gatherings can create some tense moments.
However, there’s no need to dread conflict during dinner. In fact, a conversation handled the right way may actually show your family that they have more in common than they think.
In the News: Medicare’s Total Lack of Economic Understanding
Medicare: What’s the Latest on Medicare Drug Price Negotiations?
Medical Gluttony: Patients have “been ripped off for years.”
Medical Myths and Rumors: Is the Left now the Mainstream?
The Left’s Talent for Mainstreaming Immorality
The Bookshelf: The Liberal Faculty and Liberal Media Can’t allow Logic to be Expressed.
Hippocrates & His Kin: The Religious Vote
Words of Wisdom: By Henry Ford
In Memoriam: Psychology Professor, Susan Wheelan, 1947 to Oct. 26, 2019
Restoring Accountability in Medical Practice, HealthCare, Government and Society
By Moving from a Vertical (Hospital Medical Complex) to a Horizontal Industry (Physicians-Hospital-Insurance on the same level) with Freedom from Gov’t Interference
Despite Democratic Socialists Faith In Government, it is The Precursor Of Totalitarianism.
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October 2019 MedicalTuesday Journal
Featured Article: President Trump Champions Religious Freedom at the U. N.
Kelsey Zorzi reported in the WSJ that President Trump championed Religious freedom at the United Nations more vigorously than any of his predecessors. President Trump isn’t known as a champion of human rights, but on Monday he became the first American president to convene a meeting at the United Nations on religious freedom. He kicked off the U.N. General Assembly’s annual session with a “Global Call to Protect Religious Freedom.”
Unintended Consequences of the Legalized Prenatal killing and Infanticide.
Hospital Kills Wrong Baby in Abortion, Woman Horrified to Discover Her Baby is Dead
In a mistake that turned deadly, a South Korean hospital is accused of aborting the wrong unborn baby after allegedly mixing up two pregnant patients’ charts.
Impeachment is Built on a Trap That Obama Created for Romney: Daniel Greenfield | Front Page |
The Whistleblower Protection Act was put into place for the stated purpose of fighting waste and mismanagement in the civil service. It’s a controversial piece of legislation, but its purpose is clear. It does not mean a government employee taking issue with a president’s foreign policy.
Medicare: Who Killed American Healthcare?
Who murdered the U.S. health care system? The most obvious suspect — ObamaCare — isn’t the real killer, it’s merely one of them.
Medical Gluttony: Medicaid and all its mandates over 50 years (1965—2015)
Medicaid was a relatively modest program with about 4 million enrollees and a budget of about $1 billion to be a safety net for those who had “any medically determinable physical or mental impairment which can be expected to result in death.” Now it has more than 70 million enrollees and cost $545 billion.
The Bookshelf: Gilder: Life After GOOGLE: Forget Cloud Computing:
The Fall of Big Data and the Rise of the Blockchain Economy. The Blockchain is the Internet of Money
The state is teaching kids to hate their own country and its president
The Skill in Growing Old
In Memoriam: The Butcher of Beijing
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Featured Article: Communism and Nazism Are Now Legally Synonymous in Ukraine
By Jon Miltimore | Managing Editor: FEE.org | Saturday, July 27, 2019
In the News: How California wins elections
International Medicine: As Reflected at our Southern Border: A human tragedy
Medicare: Entitlement dependency delivers a heavy blow against success in America.
Medical Gluttony: The Gluttons have taken over.
Overheard in the Medical Staff Lounge: Why do women want to join men’s clubs?
Voices of Medicine: Letter to an aspiring Doctor By Theodore Dalrymple
The Physician-Patient Bookshelf: Touching Heaven A Cardiologist’s Encounters Proof of an Afterlife
Words of Wisdom: Gathering Knowledge faster than Gathering Wisdom.
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Featured Article: Dramatically High Rate of Knee Arthroscopies
In the News: How can dead heroes offend the living?
International Medicine: Why wait until a patient is dead before harvesting his organs?
Medicare: The Moral Fabric by Nicholas Eberstadt
American Exceptionalism and the Entitlement State (Part IV continued from April, May, June)
Asking for, and accepting, purportedly need-based government welfare benefits has become a fact of life for a significant and still growing minority of our population:
Medical Gluttony: Medical Tragedy
Medical Myths & Rumors: Zuckerberg Backs Privacy Measure
Overheard in the Medical Staff Lounge: Why is gender transformation such an issue?
Voices of Medicine: Why Do We Need a ‘Right to Try’ Bill in America?
The Bookshelf: Denied Abusive Peer Review attempts to destroy a physician and send him to the National Data bank, without “due process,” with his medical license removed as he enters the TOMB.
Hippocrates & His Kin: The Age of Majority Why is it legal for a doctor to kill a baby at birth, but when a pregnant woman is killed, it is considered a double murder?
In Memoriam: Franco Zeffirelli, the director of spectacular operas, plays and films
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June
Featured Article: Gender Reconstruction
In the News: The 75th Anniversary of “D” Day: June 6, 1944
International Medicine: How compatible are democracy and capitalism?
Medicare: The Tragedy of the last 50 years since the Great Society
Medical Gluttony: Going Trans
Overheard in the Medical Staff Lounge: The Pathologic Vitriol against President Trump
The Bookshelf: GREEN HELL—How Environmentalist Plan to Control Your Life
Words of Wisdom: Life is Unfair
In Memoriam: Obituary: Charles Van Doren died on April 9th
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May
Featured Article: Medicine Meets the Press
In the News: The Case Against Retirement
Medicare: As Traced from Northern Europe
Medical Gluttony: The Medical-Hospital-Health Insurance-Government-Complex
Medical Myths: Healthcare is expensive if paid with insurance.
Overheard in the Medical Staff Lounge: The Un-reality of “Medicare-for-all”
Voices of Medicine: Is US Medical Care Inefficient?
The Bookshelf: TROLLING ON THE EDGE—The Story of a Noyo Fisherman
Hippocrates & His Kin: ABC’s Serious Prejudicial “Good Morning America” News Report
In Memoriam: Andrew Marshall – The Pentagon’s longest-serving Strategist
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Featured Article: The Continuing Epidemic of Trans
For teens who experience persistent gender dysphoria, this protocol can provide profound
relief from suffering. For some kids, however, gender dysphoria is temporary.
And the effects of transitioning can be permanent.
In the News: Transgender Military Service Ban
Gender identity, gender dysphoria, and transgender have been in the news recently which has been
heightened by the president’s ban on transgender military service, a change from the previous presidential policy. . . (more…)
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March
Featured Article: The Genius of America
Why Wilbur Wright Deserves the Bulk of the Credit for the First Flight
International Medicine: Democratic Socialism in Venezuela
“Make no mistake: Chávez and his successor Nicolás Maduro have shown the world the true colors of socialism—corruption, brutality, and failure—while my country men are dying in the streets.”
Government Medicine: The American Welfare State
In our wealthy society, the government officially treats an unprecedented portion of the population as “needy.”
Medical Myths & Rumors: Background music helps me concentrate while I study
Researchers from England and Sweden publish a study published in the journal Cognitive Psychology: They found those who listened to music while doing a task were less creative, compared to those who were in quiet conditions.
The Bookshelf: The Revolution: A Manifesto by Ron Paul, MD
This Much Is True: The Government is expanding: Taxes are increasing:
Inflation is ballooning; Our basic freedoms are disappearing.
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There are 4 main types of people who believe in the false promises of socialism: Read more . . .
California Taxpayers Have Been Forced to Spend $700 Million to Kill Almost 1 Million Babies in Abortions. Viable babies require killing by dismembering prior to extraction frequently called the “silent scream” must be similar to the loud agonal screams of Jamal Khashoggi as his arms, legs and head were cut off while alive, in the Saudi embassy, which were audible but the recordings have been restricted or withdrawn. Read more . . .
Through an examination of the experiences of New Zealand, Australia, and the United Kingdom, this paper brings to light some of the difficult decisions that accompany a national publicly funded pharmacare scheme, and the consequences of such programs for patients, physicians, innovators, and the industry. Read more . . .
- Global Healthcare: Report from DAVOS concerning Global Affairs:
Quartz Daily Brief, hi@qz.com, Weekend edition—Davos deliberations, flying cars, hagfish slime
If patients would avoid going to the emergency rooms for non-emergency conditions,
we would reduce emergency room costs easily in half.
Insurance companies are not able to print money. Therefore, the money they use to pay your
health care cost must first be taken away from you including their profit margin for their shareholders.
Dr. Rosen: We’ve experienced some severe changes in our country. I’ve never seen this hostility towards a sitting president. Isn’t this an overt effort to remove an acting president from office?
Charles Krauthammer wrote steadily for almost 40 years — but he was not a book-writer. He wrote essays, columns, speeches, etc. This is true of other top-rate and influential writers as well.
This month we bring you four excellent reviews of timely books very relevant to the practice of medicine. This is a premier monthly column which you should bookmark and read on a regular basis for your practice well-being. http://www.jpands.org/jpands2204.htm
The WSJ reported that many Apps were sending detailed private information to Facebook
- Words of Wisdom: Medical Wit & Wisdom – Compiled by Jess M Brallier
Money giving is a very good criterion . . . of a person’s mental health. Generous people are rarely mentally ill people. –Karl A. Menninger, Founder of the Menninger Psychoanalytic Institute.
- The previous month’s postings: The January Issue:
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- Featured Article: Minimum Wage Laws
- In the News: Are Cigarette Taxes Useful in Kicking the Habit and Improving Health?
- International Medicine: Saudi’s attack on America
- Medicare: Trump’s Misguided Solution to Drug Prices
- Medical Gluttony: When Health Care is Free
- Medical Myths: Income Inequality
- Overheard in the Medical Staff Lounge: Red vs Blue
- Voices of Medicine: Myth of the Angry White Male
- The Bookshelf: Heather MacDonald of the Manhattan Institute
- Hippocrates & His Kin: Which party is truly “Red” and which party is truly “Blue”
- Words of Wisdom: To Err is Human—
- Last month’s Postings: In the November Issue
- This month in History: December
- In Memoriam: Wanda Ferragamo
- The World-Wide Public Forum: Talk Radio Dialogues Connect with almost Everyone
- Restoring Accountability in Medical Practice, HealthCare, Government and Society
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- Last month’s Postings: In the November Issue
- Featured Article: Will the prosperity of the last two years continue?
- In the News: The Saga of the Leaning Millennium Tower of San Francisco.
- International Medicine: Fast Dismemberment with bone cutter while still alive.
- Medicare: Does the 14th Amendment Include children of Illegal Immigrants?
- Medical Gluttony: If you think that healthcare is expensive, just wait till it’s free.
- Medical Myths: Inequality Can Be Treated and Cured by Government Fiat
- Overheard in the Medical Staff Lounge: Unmitigated Cruelty
- Voices of Medicine: Krauthammer: Things that Matter
- The Bookshelf: Total Body Re-Conditioning
- Hippocrates & His Kin: My Father introduced me to the evils of socialism.
- Words of Wisdom: Medical Specialties
- Last month’s Postings: In the October issue
- This month in History: November
- In Memoriam: William Kistler Coors, 1916 to 2018
- The World-Wide Public Forum: Talk Radio Dialogues Connect with almost Everyone
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- Last month’s Postings: In the October Issue: To Refresh your memory
- Featured Article: From Bishop Jackson on Character Assassination of Bret Kavanaugh
- In the News: Fifty Million Facebook Users had Personal Data Compromise
- International Medicine: Time to Terminate Assisted Dying
- Medicare: Time to Terminate Prenatal Killing
- Medical Gluttony: Vertical healthcare
- Medical Myths: Judge Kavanaugh is not qualified
- Overheard in the Medical Staff Lounge: The Supreme Court Nomination
- Voices of Medicine: Hail Columbus, Dead White Male
- The Bookshelf: The HANDBOOK of Total Body Re-Conditioning
- Hippocrates & His Kin: The Practice of Ritual Defamation
- Words of Wisdom: Women
- Last month’s Postings: In The September Issue
- This month in History: October
- In Memoriam: Sir Charles Kao: Fibre optics genius passes away 26 September 2018
- The World Public Forum: Talk Radio Dialogues Connect with almost Everyone
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- Last month’s Postings: In The September Issue
- Featured Article: Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Apple Caught red handed
- In the News: Can Medicare Pay Market Rates?
- International Medicine: Single-payer healthcare could be a death sentence for seniors
- Medicare: Time to put real ‘accountability’ in Accountable Care Organizations.
- Medical Gluttony: Having No-Copay and Non-deductible health insurance.
- Medical Myths: What Are We Getting for Our Obamacare Dollars?
- Overheard in the Medical Staff Lounge: The approach to Undocumented Immigrants
- Voices of Medicine: The Voice of Charles Krauthammer, MD
- The Bookshelf: The Handbook for Total Body Re-Conditioning
- Hippocrates & His Kin: Aphorisms
- Words of Wisdom: Words of Truths
- Last month’s Postings: August Newsletter
- This month in History: September
- In Memoriam: John Sidney McCain III – 1936-2018 | JohnMcCain.com
- The World Public Forum: Talk Radio Dialogues Connect with almost Everyone
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- Last month’s Postings: In The August Issue
- Featured Article: How I went from a Trump critic to a Trump supporter
- In the News: What motivated Mike Pence to run with Donald Trump?
- International Medicine: Comparing Canada’s 10 Jurisdictions with America’s 50
- Medicare: ‘Medicare for All’ Is Still Not Plausible
- Medical Gluttony: Medicare for All is Extreme Gluttony
- Medical Myths: Transgender Myths
- Overheard in the Medical Staff Lounge: Transgender Anatomical Changes
- Voices of Medicine: Charles Krauthammer, MD
- The Bookshelf: Handbook for Total Body Re-Conditioning
- Hippocrates & His Kin: The Facebook Continued Invasion of Privacy.
- Words of Wisdom: Humanae Vitae by Paul VI
- Last month’s Postings: In the August Issue
- This month in History: September
- In Memoriam: Sergio Marchionne
- The World Public Forum: Talk Radio Dialogues Connect with almost Everyone
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Last month’s Postings: In The July 2018 Issue
- Featured Article: Susan Maxwell Skinner – Photojournalist and Singer
- In the News: The Moral Collapse of American Jewish Institutions
- International Medicine: Expo to celebrate NHS’s 70th August 15, 2018
- Medicare: Health Care Innovation
- Medical Gluttony: Toxic Masculinity
- Medical Myths: Conversion Therapy Isn’t the Cure for ‘Toxic Masculinity’
- Overheard in the Medical Staff Lounge: The National Health Service of UK
- Voices of Medicine: Handbook for Total Body Re-Conditioning
- The Bookshelf: A New Private University may be needed that reflects intellectual opinions
- Hippocrates & His Kin: Knock, Knock, Who’s There? Nikita Khrushchev?
- Words of Wisdom: Time is free, but it’s priceless
- Last month’s Postings: June 2018
- In Memoriam: Charles Krauthammer, MD
- The World Public Forum: Talk Radio Dialogues Connect with almost Everyone
- Restoring Accountability in Medical Practice, HealthCare, Government and Society
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Last month’s Postings: June 2018
- Featured Keynote address: Clinicians can treat the Health Care Crises
- In the News: Mitochondrial Dysfunction is a Driver Of Chronic Disease
- International Medicine: The ATS is a significant leader in Global Health Care
- Medicare: The Big Three entitlements: Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security
- Medical Gluttony: Progressive Income tax
- Medical Myths: Government can Control Spending
- Overheard in the Medical Staff Lounge: A Missed Opportunity to reign in Social Security
- Voices of Medicine: Continuing Medical Education after Graduation
- The Bookshelf: The Handbook for Total Body Reconditioning
- Hippocrates & His Kin: It’s good news that Trump floated a zero-trade-barrier offer
- Words of Wisdom: Happiness
- Last month’s Postings: In The May Issue
- This month in History: June
- In Memoriam: Tom Wolfe
- The World Public Forum: Talk Radio Dialogues Connect with almost Everyone
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Last month’s Postings: In The May Issue
- Featured Article: Electronic Health Record Software
- In the News: Barbara Bush’s End-Of-Life Decision Stirs Debate Over ‘Comfort Care’
- International Medicine: The Cost of Waiting for Canadian Medicare
- Medicare: Rescuing seniors and Part D from Congress
- Gluttony: The common reference to capitalism in our progressive society
- Medical Myths: Doctors and EMR/EHR
- Overheard in the Medical Staff Lounge: Practice Fusion EMR
- Voices of Medicine: A Review of Regional Medical Journals: San Mateo Co Med Assn
- The Bookshelf: The Female Brain by Louann Brizendine, MD
- Hippocrates & His Kin: Comfort Care
- Words of Wisdom: Money, Health, Sickness, Wealth
- Last month’s Postings: The April Issue
- This month in History: May
- In Memoriam: Barbara Bush
- The World Public Forum: Talk Radio Dialogues Connect with almost Everyone
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Last month’s Postings: The April Issue
- Featured Article: Handbook for Total Body Re-Conditioning Coming Soon
- In the News: Scientific Weight Control Part I of the Handbook
- International News: Time for Tax Reform in Ontario, Canada
- Medicare: Massachusetts’ Not-So-NICE Waiver Idea
- Medical Gluttony: Government Workers
- Medical Myths: NPs can replace MDs
- Overheard in the Medical Staff Lounge: Free Speech Zones?
- Voices of Medicine: A Review of Articles by or about Physicians
- The Bookshelf: Handbook of Total Body Re-conditioning The Foreword
- Hippocrates & His Kin: How are Hippocrates’ Kin Faring?
- Words of Wisdom: Liberty
- Last month’s Postings: March 2018
- This month in History: April
- In Memoriam: Remembering Peter G. Peterson
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Last month’s Postings: In the March 2018 Issue
- Featured Article: Handbook for Total Body Re-conditioning
- In the News: The real cause of gun violence
- International Medicine: Great Medicine For Trade
- Medicare: There is a Major Disorder in the Ranks to Acquiesce on Obamacare
- Medical Gluttony: Grandstanding Emotional Appeal for change is ineffective
- Medical Myths: How to Decode Body Language
- Overheard in the Medical Staff Lounge: Facebook’s Priority is Profit, not Privacy
- Voices of Medicine: Drunk Doctors
- The Bookshelf: Without Precedent
- Hippocrates & His Kin: Hippocrates Progeny are increasingly targeted
- Words of Wisdom: Limitations in Life
- Last month’s Postings: The February Issue
- This month in History: March
- In Memoriam: Billy Graham (“I detested going to church”) 1918 –2018
- The World-wide Public Forum: Talk Radio Dialogues Connect with almost Everyone
- Restoring Accountability in Medical Practice, HealthCare, Government and Society
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Last month’s Postings: The February 2018 Issue
- Featured Article: Why Entitlements never seem to go away.
- In the News: An Obamacare Dilemma
- International Medicine: The NHS is very Efficient: Able to cancelled 55,000 Operations!
- Medicare: Why Doctors are Leaving Medicare
- Medical Gluttony: Third party healthcare will always be gluttonous.
- Medical Myths: Does third party healthcare deliver optimal care?
- Overheard in the Medical Staff Lounge: Is Black Prejudice Still Prevalent?
- Voices of Medicine: House Calls
- The Bookshelf: The Deep State
- Hippocrates & His Kin: How are Hippocrates Progeny Faring?
- Words of Wisdom: Time is Precious
- Last month’s Postings: January 2018
- This month in History: February
- In Memoriam: Barefoot to Billionaire
- The World-wide Public Forum: Talk Radio Dialogues Connect with almost Everyone
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Last month’s Postings: January 2018 Issue
- Featured Article: Has America’s Biggest Health Care Problem Been Identified?
- In the News: Socialism confuses the distinction between government and society
- International Medicine: Comparing International Health Care Systems
- Medicare: Doctors May Do a “Brexit” from Medicare
- Medical Gluttony: Excessive Prescribing
- Medical Myths: Why are doctors being treated more harshly than the Taliban?
- Overheard in the Medical Staff Lounge: Doesn’t a Government Shut-Down save money?
- Voices of Medicine: The Opioid Epidemic—Misplaced blame!
- The Bookshelf: A Review of Books and Film
- Hippocrates & His Kin: The personal, private, confidential locked diary has morphed
- Words of Wisdom: When to begin?
- In Memoriam: Bernard Bond McGinity, M.D.
- The World-wide Public Forum: Talk Radio Dialogues Connect with almost Everyone
- Restoring Accountability in Medical Practice, HealthCare, Government and Society
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- Featured Article: Sexual Politics – Due Process Restored
- In the News: The Ever-More-Hostile Internet
- International Medicine: Canadian Medicare
- Medicare: How Medicare Imperils Patient Care for Seniors
- Medical Gluttony: Legal Gluttony
- Medical Myths: Exercising to Lose Weight
- Overheard in the Medical Staff Lounge: The Elections are over, Now What?
- Voices of Medicine: Women Who Suffered Emotionally from Abortion
- The Bookshelf: The Conservative Case For Trump
- Hippocrates & His Kin: Kinky Sex Workshop at our Universities?
- Words of Wisdom: Freedom is the last, best hope on earth—Abraham Lincoln
- In Memoriam: Sound of Music’ Actress Heather Menzies-Urich Dead at 68
- The World Public Forum: Talk Radio Dialogues Connect with almost Everyone
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