One man loses his job, and another man his life, for using pot

While support for marijuana legalization is rising in America, and there is overwhelming support for medical marijuana legalization, medical marijuana patients still suffer harsh discrimination. Sometimes they can lose their job, and sometimes they can lose their life. In the...

Man kicked arrested for visiting his married husband

Roger Gorley is a gay man who wanted to visit his married partner in a hospital in Kansas City, Missouri. Well, Missouri doesn't recognize same sex marriages from out of state. A nurse in the hospital denied him visitation as a family member. Mr. Gorley's daughter Amanda...

50 Signs That The U.S. Health Care System Is A Gigantic Money Mak

http://newsdoors.blogspot.com/2013/02/50-signs-that-us-health-care-system-is.html The U.S. health care system is a giant money making scam that is designed to drain as much money as possible out of all of us before we die.  In the United States today, the health care...

IT’S STARTING: Florida ‘Doesn’t Have Enough Doctors’…

http://newsdoors.blogspot.com/2013/02/its-starting-florida-doesnt-have-enough_24.html TALLAHASSEE Brace yourself for longer lines at the doctor’s office. Whether you’re employed and insured, elderly and on Medicare, or poor and covered by Medicaid, the Florida...

Republicans Unveil a Do-It-Yourself Healthcare Plan

Washington DC - Desperate to take the lead in the nation’s never-ending healthcare debate, Congressional Republicans are massing behind an initiative that would provide all Americans with a do-it-yourself...

Doctors strike: three quarters of surgeries to stay open as usual

Just one in four doctors' surgeries are expected to take part in tomorrow's industrial action over pensions as the number of GPs prepared to defy the strike increases. As the UK's first doctors' strike...

Why did 90% of Republicans vote against state medical marijuana?

The vast majority of Americans support medical marijuana. The numbers are staggering, in how supportative they are in fact. Indeed, a bare majority of Americans support the legalization of marijuana, and not just for medical purposes. With that in mind, why is the Republican...

Anti-drug folks deny marijuana to patients and silence critics

"His marijuana trade and propagandist marijuana magazine have generated nearly $5 million a year in profits that bolstered his trafficking efforts, but those have gone up in smoke today. … Drug legalization lobbyists now have one less pot of money to rely on." Those were...

UK Doctors may strike over cuts to their pension pots

Doctors have threatened their first industrial action for more than 30 years after refusing to accept cuts to their pension pots, which are each worth an average of £1.7million. The British Medical...

The Patient’s View

You are in charge One of the most important things a person can learn about healthcare is that this is your business. You are in charge. When you are young and healthy, you probably don’t think much about...

America's Medical Mess: Economic Solution

The medical crisis in America in all its manifestations is all due to one underlying problem: There are not enough doctors. And no solution is going to be adequate until this problem is fixed. The low number of doctors limits supply of medical care. This causes three...

Dr. D.M. French Dies at 86; Treated ’60s Marchers

"Dr. David M. French, who helped found an organization of doctors that provided medical care to marchers during the civil rights era and who later organized health care programs in 20 African nations, died on Thursday in Charlottesville, Va. He was 86 and lived in...

Ronald McMurderer: Hamburgers kill so stop eating them or else!

Ronald McDonald is a cold blooded murderer. There, I said it - though I seriously doubt it’s something you haven’t heard before.  The litany of folks crawling up on soapboxes to castigate the restaurant...

People of my generation, you are going down

The people you just voted for can hardly wait to cut your Medicare reimbursements to doctors thereby depriving you of healthcare. If the Obama program doesn’t get you by editing your doctor-patient relationship,...

Celine Dion enters hospital ahead of twins' birth

" Celine Dion checked into a Florida hospital Sunday night as a precaution "to prevent the early delivery of her babies," the hospital said in a written statement Monday. The superstar singer and her husband Rene Angelil are expecting twin boys in November. The couple chose...

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