The Politics of Mammograms
The American Cancer society's new breast-cancer-screening guidelines are political -- and they are bad medicne.
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One of the biggest flaws of Obamacare is the enormous dependence on subsidies to keep the boat afloat.
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At the Bush Institute’s fifth annual Warrior 100K Mountain Bike Ride, which honors our men and women wounded in military service, former president George W. Bush characteristically did not talk ...
My Patients Are Golfing, Not Me
Ever since the Balance the Budget Act of 1997 passed, almost every physician I know has been chaffing against the bit of the Sustained Growth Rate formula, under which our ...
Calling Me Stupid
The arrogant remarks of Obamacare architect and MIT professor Jonathan Gruber should come as no surprise. He called the American people “stupid” and said that passage of the law relied ...
The Travel Ban
In my 2005 book, False Alarm: The Truth about the Epidemic of Fear, I wrote about fear guides — mentors or leaders who could help us manage worry and learn ...
The Fear and Science of Ebola
We should not be deathly afraid of Ebola.
Dr. Michael Osterholm, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy and author of the bestselling book Living Terrors: What America ...
America, Ebola, and Fear
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A Cosmetic Solution for the VA
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