The Smallpox Conundrum
Remember smallpox? At the height of concerns about terrorism following 9/11, the federal government proposed that health care providers and first responders get vaccinated against the disease. The lack...
View ArticleA Note to Fellow Immigrants
Franklin Roosevelt may or may not have begun an address to the Daughters of the American Revolution with the memorable line, “Fellow Immigrants.” (A curmudgeonly blogger says a reporter made up the...
View ArticleSwine Flu Meets Workers Comp
It’s only Monday morning and many of us are just refocusing after a weekend of gardening, football drafts, NBA playoffs, baseball (Ellsbury steals home!), so we are probably not quite ready to think...
View ArticleRemembering Katrina
If you haven’t discovered the gem that is the Boston Globe’s “Big Picture” yet, you are missing a wonderful feature. Billed as “news stories in photographs” it is a themed news essay curated by Alan...
View ArticleWill Our Debt Ceiling Crisis Put A Knife Through The Heart of America’s...
As I have written before, despite the cost of health care in America being nearly twice the average of the other 37 countries within the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD),...
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