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“If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.”
― George Washington

Book Review of Vandals at the Gates of Medicine: Historic Perspectives on the Battle Over Health Care Reform. Reviewed by Jane M. Orient, MD
According to an old Cuban proverb, “Camarón que se duerme, se lo lleva la corriente” (shrimp that sleep are swept away by the current). Some

Hammurabi, Defensive Medicine, and Practice Guidelines
The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease.The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits. Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) On Managed

Book Review of Vandals at the Gates of Medicine: Historic Perspectives on the Battle Over Health Care Reform. Reviewed by David A. Hyman, MD, JD
How is one to describe a book in which chapter I begins with the words “In the beginning” and that then proceeds to discuss, in

In Search of the Fountain of Youth
I don’t want to achieve immortality through my work.I want to achieve immortality through not dying. Woody Allen In the aftermath of the conservative revolution

Vandals Within the Gates
All the information that has come to light regarding the deliberations, inappropriate and shocking revelations, of the secret Health Care Task Force of President Bill

Vandals at the Gates
But what events have led us to this deplorable state of affairs with American medicine headed inexorably in the wrong direction—down the path of welfarism,