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A World Without Abortion Rights

by francine 08.25.2010

Watching Rachel Maddow recount the views of many Republican candidates who emerged from last night’s primaries, I realized that most of you, younger than I, grew up taking the right of a woman to choose for granted. But the current crop of Republican candidates for the fall elections does not. Many of them believe a [...]

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Healthcare’s Contract With America: Routine Maintenance

by francine 08.04.2010

Until the 1970s, most medical care was primary care. Certain primary care doctors were known to be better at diagnosing things than others, and if you thought something was really wrong and your own doctor couldn’t figure it out, you went to a diagnostician. While these talented people may have charged a bit more, I [...]

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Keep Out of the Health Care System: Stay Healthy

by francine 07.09.2010

Because the American health care system is so broken, I’ve been on a lifelong journey to avoid it. The obvious path is through disease prevention, an aspect of practice in which allopathic medicine is particularly wanting. I have been long aware that there is a science of psychoneuroimmunology (interactions between the nervous system and the [...]

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The Lost Art of Diagnosis

by francine 04.29.2010

At lunch yesterday, I was the guest of a group that contained several retired physicians. We listened to a talk by a board member from a large non-profit local hospital system. The speaker, knowledgeable and well-prepared, talked about the cost drivers of health care in America, which he listed as an over-reliance on technology, the [...]

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