health care politics

Our Noblest Profession

Author: 
David K. Tan
Article Type: 
Student Reflections
Issue: 
Summer 1997
Volume Number: 
2
Issue Number: 
3

As I await the dawn of my professional career, just weeks away from medical school graduation, I pause to reflect upon the long and arduous process that has led up to this point in time. Was it worth the long days and nights in the classroom, laboratories, and medical center? Was it worth the agony of time spent away from family and the loss of any semblance of a personal life?

American Medicine 2010 --- A View From the Bridge

Author: 
Stephen R. Katz, MD
Article Type: 
Parody
Issue: 
March/April 1999
Volume Number: 
4
Issue Number: 
2

By the year 2010, all remaining physicians will be housed in penitentiaries, where they will have been placed thanks to the effectiveness of the False Claims Act, Kassebaum-Kennedy, and the AMA/HCFA E&M Guidelines. These places will have been renamed "meditentiaries," since all of the other "penitents" will have been released because "reasons" for their maleficent actions will have been explained away by the social experts. Thus rehabilitated it will have been deemed safe to release them.

News Capsules (March/April 1999)

Author: 
Compiled by Medical Sentinel Editors
Article Type: 
News Capsules
Issue: 
March/April 1999
Volume Number: 
4
Issue Number: 
2

High Crimes and Misdemeanors and Impeachment

The Prostitution of Medical Care

Author: 
George E. Shambaugh, Jr., MD
Article Type: 
Commentary
Issue: 
March/April 1999
Volume Number: 
4
Issue Number: 
2

Prostitution, "the oldest profession," is the sale for money of what, between lovers, may be life's most precious experience. As a result, this "oldest profession" is held in the lowest esteem.

Ritalin --- Pharmaceutical Blackmail

Author: 
Nelson Borelli, MD
Article Type: 
Correspondence
Issue: 
Summer 2001
Volume Number: 
6
Issue Number: 
2

Dear Editor,

Congratulations on your piece on Ritalin. You and the Medical Sentinel have done a good public service. The average citizen is not aware of how the estate is taking over the life of people by the use of pseudo-medicine. What you observe about "ADHD" can apply to "mental illness," well discussed by Thomas Szasz in The Therapeutic State and other books by him.

Nelson Borelli, MD
Evanston, IL

News Capsules (Fall 2001)

Author: 
Compiled by Medical Sentinel Editors
Article Type: 
News Capsules
Issue: 
Fall 2001
Volume Number: 
6
Issue Number: 
3

Lawsuit Filed Against HHS and Medical Privacy Rule



Many legislators probably never read the entire ObamaCare legislation before they passed it. And in an interview on Fox News on March 9, 2010, then Speaker of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), arrogantly told the American people: "We have to pass the health care bill so that YOU can find out what is in it." Now, it would behoove us to learn exactly what has been included in ObamaCare. — Dr. Miguel Faria