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Medical School Quotas and National Health

WEBA half century ago it was possible for almost anyone with a high school education to enter medical school. In 1905, for example, 5,600 doctors graduated from medical schools to …

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The Health-Care ‘Trifecta’ – Commentary Magazine

WEBThe bill, originally introduced by Rep. Anna Eshoo (D-Calif.) and now part of the health-care reform legislation, exempted biotech pharmaceuticals that contain …

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The Pandemic Public-Health Disaster – Commentary Magazine

WEBThe public health elite also showed a profound lack of curiosity about exactly how COVID-19 behaves in the environment. From the start, the WHO, the CDC, and …

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Medical Apartheid by Harriet A. Washington – Commentary …

WEBMedical Apartheid covers a great deal of historical ground, from the antebellum plantation era to present-day controversies over diseases that especially …

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The XX Factor – Commentary Magazine

WEBThe XX Factor. When gender differences are ignored in health studies, it’s women who pay the price. by Claire Lehmann. T. he insistence that gender differences …

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Health Care: A Two-Decade Blunder – Commentary Magazine

WEBIt appeared to Barack Obama and his dramatic majorities in the House and Senate that the balance was ready to be upset in 2009. Ted Kennedy had been …

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The Fog of Mediscare – Commentary Magazine

WEBThe Fog of Mediscare. If you wonder what the central issue of the 2012 election will be, Nancy Pelosi has a three-word proposal: “Medicare, Medicare, …

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What We Have Gotten Right in the COVID Fight

WEBby Yuval Levin. WE HAVE been through a trying national trauma since the beginning of 2020—one of the gravest public-health calamities in our country’s history …

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The Worst Study Ever

WEBThe World Health Organization’s World Health Report 2000, which ranked the health-care systems of nearly 200 nations, stands as one of the most influential social-science studies in history.For the past decade, it has been the de facto basis for much of the discussion of the health-care system in the United States, routinely cited in public …

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AIDS So Far – Commentary Magazine

WEBFrom 1981 to 1982, diagnosed AIDS cases increased 264 percent. From 1982 to 1983, they increased 170 percent, then 103 percent to the next year. By 1986, …

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The Long March of ‘Long Covid’ – Commentary Magazine

WEBThe study in JAMA did, however, identify a feature that suggests an individual is at higher risk of suffering the residual effects of a Covid infection: …

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Wokeness M.D. – Commentary Magazine

WEBWokeness M.D. The threat to medicine. by Tevi Troy. Twenty years ago, the physician Sally Satel argued in her book PC M.D. that political correctness had taken …

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Are We Spending Too Much on AIDS

WEBNevertheless, the current PHS allocation of about $1.6 billion for AIDS research and education is higher than that allocated for any other cause of death. In …

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The Horrible Misreporting of COVID Data – Commentary Magazine

WEBThe Horrible Misreporting of COVID Data. A much misunderstood component of modern life is the role of data in decision-making. Many people have a …

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How Trauma Became a Political Tool – Commentary Magazine

WEBHow Trauma Became a Political Tool. The left’s new battleground is the psyche. by Christine Rosen. A culture that once avoided talk of mental health is now openly celebrating people who speak candidly about their psychic wounds—even or especially when they are the type of people who are known to us all because they perform labors …

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The Nature of Suffering and the Goals of Medicine, by Eric J. Cassell

WEBby Gilbert Meilaender. Treating the Person. The Nature of Suffering and the Goals of Medicine. by Eric J. Cassell. Oxford University Press. 254 pp. $22.95. My …

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Gaza Lunacy at CDC and WHO – Commentary Magazine

WEB“The CDC, which has a long history of collaborating with WHO, had reached out to the international health organization to offer support in October, about two weeks …

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Critical Race Theory Is Coming for Your Doctor

WEBThe AMA’s new guide, Advancing Health Equity: A Guide to Language, Narrative, and Concepts, is an effort to wrap these ideologically-suspect ideas and …

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Leana Wen Is Not Being Honest with You – Commentary Magazine

WEB“The science has changed,” declared Dr. Leana Wen on Monday. The George Washington University public health expert, columnist, and ubiquitous presence …

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The Precautionary Paradox – Commentary Magazine

WEBThe Precautionary Paradox. Tech Commentary. by James B. Meigs. If the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic had been a 1990s disaster movie, we’d have had …

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Illness as Metaphor, by Susan Sontag – Commentary Magazine

WEBTurning from history to the present period, and from tuberculosis to the second of the two great scourges that figure in Illness as Metaphor, we note, as I have said, that most of …

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The Accountability Doctrine – Commentary Magazine

WEBThe Accountability Doctrine. To combat targeted violence, we should bolster systems to identify and supervise the severely mentally ill. The deadly shooting at a …

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The CDC’s Inadequate ‘Reform Plan’

WEBThe CDC’s Inadequate ‘Reform Plan’. Rochelle Walensky is out to fix the agency’s nonexistent problems and ignore its real ones. The Centers for Disease …

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