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Proud to Be American — Naturalized Citizen Earns Medal from DAR

Dr. Miguel Faria is very proud of his adopted the United States of America. He’s equally as proud to have received the Americanism medal and certificate from the Daughters of the American Revolution last month. Faria, a native of Cuba, moved to Macon in 1983 after completing his training in neurosurgery at Emory University Hospital […]

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Transformation of Medical Ethics Through Time (Part I): Medical Ethics and Statist Controls

In matters of style, swim with the current;in matters of principle, stand firm like a rock.Thomas Jefferson The Corporate Practice of Medicine One hears repeatedly that managed care penetration in health care delivery continues unabated; that it continues to interpose itself in the medical decision-making process erstwhile reserved to the patient and his physician; and

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On the Moral Virtues and Evolving Professional Ethics: A Message to Physicians by Miguel A. Faria, Jr., MD

The Cardinal Virtues It has been written by the great thinkers of the Western intellectual tradition that the chief moral virtues — the four cardinal virtues — are courage (or fortitude), temperance, justice, and prudence. According to the modern philosopher Mortimer J . Adler, the four cardinal virtues are the virtues which constitute the moral

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Communist Use of American POWs as Human Guinea Pigs (Part II): Vietnam, the Soviets, and other Special Projects by Russell L. Blaylock, MD

When the American POWs returned from captivity in Vietnam, military authorities noticed there were no amputees. At the time, this puzzled the experts. With over 2000 men in captivity, one would expect at least a few amputees. But in light of what is known about the Soviet human experimental program, it now makes a lot

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Corporate Socialized Medicine Threatens Medical Profession

Despite the media hullabaloo about a growing medical marketplace and the supposedly conservative changes being brought about by the November 1994 Republican revolution, corporate socialized medicine is making headway and becoming a reality, step-by-step, under the rubric of managed care and a mislabeled “free market.” The fact is we still face an ominous threat from

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