Warning! If you have high blood pressure, consult your physician before reading Medical Warrior. Dr. Miguel Faria writes with such fervor and conviction about the looming dangers of a health-care system dominated by big government, big business, and big labor that people with medical problems may wish to read something far less provocative. In this […]
When the government fears the people there is liberty.When the people fear the government there is tyranny.Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) Federal Law Enforcement In West Virginia, we learn that the house of a physician is entered by federal agents who do not identify themselves or explain their actions. The physician’s wife and children are threatened and
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The physician should be contemptuous of money, interested in his work,self-controlled, and just. Once he is possessed of these basic virtues,he will have all others at his command as well.Galen Can the Medical Profession Survive Flexible Ethics?* The medical writers of antiquity wrote and discussed ethics merely as individuals trying to find out the best
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
The middle of the road leads to socialism.Ludwig von MisesPlanning For Freedom, 1962 From Ancient Rome to Karl Marx Just like in ancient Rome, at the time of the Ides of March and the death knell of the Republic — when the Roman populace’s votes were being bought by populist political demagogues who either promised
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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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