Medical Ethics
Are Homosexual Denialists Really Bisexual?
Why people believe what they believe.
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Rape and Conservative Mythology
The best course of action for conservatives faced with a conundrum is to pretend that the problem doesn't exist.
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Definition of Ideological Confusion
Do as we say. not as we do.
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How Greed Makes for Bad Doctors
The study of motivation in economic rewards models provides us a framework by which to look at how greed and the drive to maximize profit leads to more expensive and poorer quality health care.
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Specialty Board Re-certification: Improving Care or a Money Makeing Racket?
Repeated testing of physicians seems like a good idea. To bad that there is no proof that this makes any difference in the delivery or quality of patient care.
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Does Free Speech Apply to Doctors?
Many stand on their soap boxes and proclaim that politics and patient care should not mix. But mix they do and the simple act of patient care does not strip the physician of their first amendment rights.
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Winning the Vaccine Wars
Statistically speaking, we are winning the vaccine wars . .
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DWT vs DWI
It’s like driving with your eyes closed for five seconds or more. This is the equivalent to driving while texting (reading or writing). It’s twice as likely to cause a crash as driving while intoxicated but as of 2010, only 19 states had laws that prohibited texting while driving for ALL drivers (not just...
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Dr. Arafiles’ Alternative Legal and Medical Treatments
His response to being reported to the Texas Medical Board is just as unique as some of his medical treatments.
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Vaccine Studies and Conspiracy Thinking
The anti-vaccine conspiracy theorists cling tenaciously to a few studies of questionable quality and accuracy and serious credibility issues.
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