Doctors as professionals

I ran across this interesting post recently which contrasts physicians with other professionals.

My welfare check doesn’t cover the iPhone plan

Soapbox alert: This post has a deceivingly fair and balanced beginning.
Sorry for yet another post of socio-political musings, but at least I came up with a somewhat interesting title. The thought has crossed, and continues to cross my mind that the richer America has become, the more its citizens expect as a fundamental standard of [...]

Thank you, Ganden Thurman

Not too long ago, I was read with interest this letter to the editor of the free daily amNew York:
U.S. deserves better health careOur health care system and the health of the general population of our country are a disgrace–plain and simple. It’s high time the government lived up to its constitutional duty to tend [...]

The blur that is ethics

This was a rather interesting article from CNN.com today. Although more likely to run across poems, anecdotes, and grammatical philosophizing as one strolls down Mulberry Street, sometimes the reader might encounter something a bit more complicated. In these cases, one should tread carefully, remembering that there are two sides of the street.
Take that to mean [...]