Category: Health Care

August 2020 The hardest pandemic question facing us today is how to keep our kids safe in school. Some people feel that until there is a vaccine, there is no way schools can be made safe. Others feel that with careful planning, social distancing, masks, track and trace, etc, schools can be safe today. Both…

September, 2018 With the introduction of legal recreational use of marijuana, we will be seeing an increase in overdoses when people who haven’t used it in years, if ever, unwittingly take more than they can tolerate. That’s what happened to me and my wife, Kathy, in early September. I have Parkinson’s disease and last year,…

June, 2018 Sometimes, as Ronald Reagan claimed, government is the problem. But other times it is the solution to the problem. There are some things that can be done only by government. Defense is one. Imagine putting the defense of our country out to bid. Would you trust a company like Facebook with control of…

October, 2017 Recently, Atul Gawande, a cancer surgeon in Boston and a contributor to The New Yorker, went back to his home town, Athens, Ohio in the foothills of the Adirondacks, to ask his former friends and neighbors — and some of their friends and neighbors — about health care. He found, among other things,…