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Category Archives: Medicine
Patrick Soon-Shiong
Patrick Soon-Shiong (b. 1952) is a surgeon, medical inventor, biotechnology executive, investor, philanthropist, and newspaper proprietor whose career joins academic medicine to pharmaceutical commerce on a scale few physicians have matched. He built a large private fortunes through the development … Continue reading
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NYT: ‘Conor McGregor’s Comeback: A Tale of Banned Drugs and a Famous Doctor’
Michael S. Schmidt writes for The New York Times: McGregor, the Ultimate Fighting Championship’s main attraction, had the support of the prominent sports physician Neal ElAttrache when he decided to use performance-enhancing drugs. The doctor, Neal ElAttrache, oversaw the surgery … Continue reading
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Professional Moral Grammars in the United States
Work shapes my instinctive reactions because I have spent more of my adult life working than in any other activity. Everything I do affects me, and the length of time I spend in a setting approximates the amount of rewiring … Continue reading
‘Medicine Without Merit’
Dr. Forrest Bohler writes for Compact: The requirements for admission into medical school vary markedly depending on who the applicant is. According to data from the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), the academic thresholds required for acceptance differ substantially … Continue reading
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The Gatekeeper: Jerome Wakefield and the Boundaries of Mental Disorder
Jerome C. Wakefield, born in 1946, spent his career asking a question that psychiatry preferred not to confront: what do we mean when we call something a mental disorder? His answer, the harmful dysfunction analysis (HDA), looks at first like … Continue reading
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Normal Suffering: The Life and Work of Allan V. Horwitz
Allan Victor Horwitz, born August 22, 1948, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, spent more than five decades at Rutgers University asking a question that sounds simple but turns out to be hard: where does ordinary suffering end and mental illness begin? Horwitz … Continue reading
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The Jurisdictional War Over The Purpose Of Professions
What happened in American public health before COVID was not an isolated drift. It was the visible edge of a broader settlement across elite professions. Medicine, law, and education all made the same move in parallel: they redefined their core … Continue reading
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Ten Convenient Beliefs For Leaders Of American Medical Schools Under Civil Rights Investigation By The Trump Administration
Medical school leaders believe their diversity, equity, and inclusion programs represent evidence-based educational interventions that improve patient care outcomes for underserved populations rather than administrative infrastructure whose expansion was driven by institutional competition, legal risk management, donor signaling, and the … Continue reading
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Ten Convenient Beliefs For Doctors In America Today
Clinical guidelines represent the best available evidence rather than the negotiated consensus of specialty society committees whose members have financial relationships with the manufacturers of the treatments being recommended. Convenient because following guidelines protects physicians from malpractice liability while outsourcing … Continue reading
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The System Still Counts
The Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Center (PTMC) does not exist, but it does a great deal of cultural work. The Pitt, Max’s real-time emergency medicine drama, unfolds across a single fifteen-hour shift, one episode per hour, and its formal commitment to … Continue reading