Articles

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

Sleeping With the Enemy
As you may or may not know, there are no physicians from organized medicine serving on Mrs. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s Health Care Task Force—MDs who

The True Numbers of Uninsured Americans
A half-truth is a whole lie.Jewish Proverb Anything repeated three times in Washington becomes fact.Eugene McCarthy In a previous article entitled “Crisis in Health Care

The Medical Gulag
Acquiescence is the trademark of the slave.Aristotle (4th Century B.C.) The issue of whether we will remain an independent and compassionate profession or become an

The Death of Henry II of France
Abstract: On June 30, 1559, King Henry II of France (1519-1559), against the advice of his court ministers, participated in a fateful joust. The wooden

Crisis in Health Care Delivery
In the late 1980s with the end of the Golden Age of Ronald Reagan and the early 1990s with the ascendancy of George H.W. Bush

Dominique-Jean Larrey: Napoleon’s Surgeon from Egypt to Waterloo
Praised by Napoleon as “the worthiest man I ever met,” Dominique-Jean Larrey (1766-1842), his legendary surgeon, was born in Beaudean, a little village in the