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...

Big Brother Has A New Face, And It’s Your Boss

http://economicrisis.com/big-brother-has-a-new-face-and-its-your-boss/6128 Big Brother Has A New Face, And It’s Your Boss Recently, the CVS Caremark Corporation began requiring employees to disclose personal health information (including weight, blood pressure, and...

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...

Medical Elitism and Alternative Medicine

Artists are frequently accused of being elitists; but the most elitist group in America I've found to be the doctors. It's understandable why doctors in America would be elitist. The length, rigor and expense of medical education makes it accessible to only a very small...

Sociopaths and Holocausts

For a long time people in much of America and other Western countries have been up in arms about sociopaths. The claim is that these people are evil and can only be evil whatever they do. This militates against what we know about choice and rationality. And it also carries a...

Corruption and Stonewalling

Corruption in everything from medicine to courts has reached a staggering level. I have been personally witness to these cases of corruption among others: - Three people from the same family were murdered in the medical system: One by being given a 20 times the deadly dose...

Romney's gaffe; Affordable Care Act

http://www.salon.com/2012/01/09/romney_defends_his_fire_people_gaffe_with_a_lie/ I appreciate the diligence of reporters and pundits who have pointed out that when Mitt Romney said “I like being able to fire people,” he wasn’t talking, literally, about firing people....

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...

Social Values and the Health System

By Sam Vaknin Author of "Malignant Self-love: Narcissism Revisited" There are as many health systems and models as there are countries. This is because healthcare is a public good and, thus, reflects the social and cultural values of the societies that design and adopt...

Scientists Grow New Urethra in Lab?

" Watching human organs take shape in a lab dish is no longer the realm of science fiction: as scientists get better at applying engineering techniques to living cells and tissues, lab-grown organs are increasingly becoming a reality. And this week, researchers at Wake...