On June 23, 1995, a swarm of armed men invaded the Mason, West Virginia medical office of Dr. Danny R. Westmoreland. With their guns drawn, the intruders ordered everyone, including a nine-year-old child, to stand against a wall while the office was ransacked. The marauders were agents of the federal “health police,” and they had […]
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Speech delivered at the 17th Annual Doctors for Disaster Preparedness (DDP) Meeting Thank you for your kind introduction. It’s my pleasure to have the opportunity to address this distinguished audience of physician colleagues and fellow scientists in Doctors for Disaster Preparedness (DDP). I want to talk about the issue of scientific integrity in public health
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A History of Censorship I was struck that particular morning when I heard on the radio from Paul Harvey (and later CNN) that on January 15th, the editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), George D. Lundberg, M.D., had been fired by the AMA for using JAMA for his own political purposes.
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Under the present developing system of medical care — i.e., managed care and HMOs (corporate socialized medicine), physicians today (including neurosurgeons) are subject to cost-effective analysis or economic credentialing—the methodology by which hospitals and health care networks (particularly HMOs) use utilization review data about physician medical practices (not to determine quality as claimed, but more
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Your March 3 [1999] editorial “Health Care Industry Wearing Blinders,” brings to light much that is transpiring today in health care delivery — from “cowardly” public relations responses at the state legislature to “cynical” radio ads by the managed care industry. The public outcry you described and the horror story testimonials aired in WMAZ’s, All
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Et domus sua cuique est tutissimum refugium.Sir Edward Coke (1552-1634) The Legacy of Revolutions It seems that when it comes to the issue of gun control, England has never gotten over the shock of the American Revolution, when a band of patriots, ordinary armed citizens, citizens who were very protective of their rights and liberties,
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