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by | Mar 2, 2024

I am blessed with the most wonderful and loyal readers (and editors and publisher) here at The American Spectator. In eight years, many have come to regard me almost as family, and — as long as they don’t ask me to help…

by | Dec 25, 2023

U.S. healthcare is failing. Care is both unaffordable and inaccessible; insurance is both unaffordable and fails to deliver timely medical care; and national spending is out of control and “unsustainable” (per President Obama). Who will fix healthcare, a dying system that…

by | Dec 6, 2023

The U.S. has a critical shortage of health care professionals: nurses, mental health therapists, and particularly physicians. The shortage has been worsening over the years and is now at crisis levels, with wait times for care so long that people are…

by | Nov 12, 2023

My kid once owned a millennial t-shirt featuring an image of Darth Vader that read: “Come to the dark side: we have cookies.” Apart from its humorous 21st-century rendition of the greater-good argument, the meme also brings to mind the…

by | Oct 30, 2023

There are certain things we expect from our medical professionals — basic services that are the very basis of their profession. We expect our doctors to try to accurately diagnose and treat the underlying cause of our symptoms; to provide…

by | Sep 22, 2023

The “disease” of “hysteria” was the scourge of the front parlors and hospitals of the European elite in the 19th century. Even Sigmund Freud had a conflicted diagnostic go at hysteria. It was in the medical textbooks, in the meetings…

by | Aug 5, 2023

Employers and health researchers are evaluating the costs and side effects of Ozempic and Wegovy — trending weight loss drugs — as demand for these products soars.  Ozempic, according to Axios reporter Caitlin Owens, is technically a Type 2 diabetes…

by | Aug 4, 2023

Patients have been turning to Google for diagnoses for years. Now, as artificial intelligence enters the medical world, their doctors may join them. Hospitals and research centers have announced partnerships with AI creators like Google and Microsoft for the last…

by | Aug 1, 2023

A proposed Ohio bill has the potential to insidiously diminish parents’ rights in relation to their children’s medical care. The amendment, “The Right to Reproductive Freedom with Protections for Health and Safety,” to Article I of the Ohio Constitution was…

by | Jul 28, 2023

Though the HIPAA Privacy Rule grants parents access to medical records until a child turns 18, many overruling state policies allow minors to consent to medical treatment without parental involvement.   The Federalist recently published a piece by Amy Haywood that breaks…

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