All the doctors I know (including yours truly) make regular use of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) PubMed database, where we have free access to research that keep us up to date on the latest developments in medicine. This database, open to the public as well, provides us all a return on our tax… Read More »
Healthcare Reform: What’s the Real Issue?
This week I attended a vigil for healthcare reform with a public option organized by MoveOn.org. Quietly but with urgency, a series of people financially broken by our current healthcare system reminded those assembled that we mustn’t miss our current historic opportunity to increase accessibility to healthcare resources. Accessibility is certainly a key issue: how… Read More »
Slow Food, Slow Money, Slow Medicine
“Every dollar that we send into ‘the market’, disconnected from our beliefs and our values, disconnecting us from one another, from our communities, from the land, is an act of surrender. No market victor, no Dow Jones Industrial Average record, can compensate for this surrender.” –Woody Tasch, Inquiries into the Nature of Slow Money The… Read More »