January 12, 2018
You can read recent stories and video of a patient dumping by Baltimore Hospital here and here and here. And here is a link to a professional study: Patient Dumping: The Dark Side of Health Care in America.
January 11, 2018
From the ABA Journal reporting on a Philly Xarelto verdict that got overturned: Erdos rejected an alternate ground for overturning the verdict that was based on an Instagram photo by a lawyer for the plaintiff that used the hashtag #killinnazis. Erdos nonetheless scolded and punished the lawyer for the post, the Legal Intelligencer (sub. req.) […]
January 11, 2018
Style is thus a form of honor and courage, just as, Santayana tells us, is the pursuit of truth always. Justice Benjamin Cardozo in “Mr. Justice Holmes”
January 9, 2018
Ways to protect net neutrality. A Little Known Procedural Rule In Congress
Truth Out Of Chaos
Now I’ve run out of things to say. There’s obviously no sense talking about this kind of thing … or maybe, there is at that: I find that by putting things in writing I can understand them and see them a little more objectively. And I guess that’s one of the real objectives of writing, […]
January 5, 2018
Voter Suppression efforts taken up by the United States Supreme Court. Reuters: With Renewed Vigor, USSC Scrutinizes Curbs On Voting
January 4, 2018
All ages shall speak with amaze and applause Of the courage we’ll show in support of our laws To die we can bear – but to serve we disdain For shame is to freemen more dreadful than pain. John Dickinson, “The Liberty Song” a Revolutionary War Era poem
January 3, 2017
Testing to produce a certain result is as toxic in medicine as it is in education. VA Patients Put At Risk To Obtain Favorable ‘Ratings’
2018: A Full Tilt Boogie
2018 has me thinking about the direction of my practice over the next year or two. We will soon be celebrating my 25th year in practice as a solo practitioner. I’m proud of that achievement. I’m proud of what we have been able to accomplish here in Southwest Florida and around the State. I am […]
Feedback 2017
Steven Spielberg’s “The Post,” which for months has been called the right movie at the right moment, felt relevant, if in less magical and obvious ways. It doesn’t have the engine of a classic fairy tale, but rather the power of a populist Frank Capra fairy tale. It tells the story of how the Washington […]