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Physicians teach their patients the science they must understand to enable them to make informed healthcare decisions. Is it not also a physician’s responsibility to explain the science underlying public health policy and the connection between political choices, public health policies, and their health and longevity?
America’s democracy now hangs in the balance. We can neither allow the criminals to go unpunished nor should we create a legal process that does further damage our fragile democracy.
Governors of the Blue States should create the “Blue State Domestic Ambassador for the Coronavirus Pandemic” to implement a mutually agreeable, multi-year, Blue State Coronavirus Mitigation Plan predicated on Blue-State ethos.
It’s time that moral America align its pocketbook with her ideals. Let’s make the racists and their co-conspirators literally pay the price…
My hospital has asked its physician to volunteering to take care COVID-19 patients. For many reasons, this request is both problematic and necessary…
The COVID-19 pandemic will exacerbate the US economic inequity problem and threatens the viability of our healthcare system, a solution…
Invoking “political purity” as a reason to “not vote” is an immoral choice that can only ensure the institutionalization of values you abhor and may be the final nail into democracy’s coffin.
If we can continue to ignore our gentrification problem, our communities will become increasingly economically and socially polarized and politically unstable. One alternative is …
America’s nearly 250 year experiment in democracy is dying. Our system of “check and balances” now exists only in name. Maybe the death of democracy in America can be forestalled or averted if…
The voter “enthusiasm gap” will quantitative predicate the electoral balance of power in the House of Representatives…
If we hope to create a healthcare system that is sustainable and meets the needs of all members of our society…
The Democrats must play the political game according to the rules as the exist, not according the the rules they wish existed…
Physicians are required to prescribe a medication whose risk/benefit ratio they may not be able to fully assess or have never used….
There is only a single political path that has the potential to enshrine democracy in America. A centrist Democratic Presidential nominee is not on that path.
As our capitalism based healthcare system is not fiscally sustainable nor efficient, we need to explore alternative options…
