January 27, 1997. Our people are inundated with health advice—don’t drink, don’t smoke, wear a condom, wear your seat belt, don’t eat red meat, lose weight—and on and on and on. But as a practicing physician of 15 years, I have noticed a health risk that is never publicized—intolerable debt. No, it is not the […]
Archives for August 2014
Physicians Should Support Single Payer Catastrophic Coverage
Practicing medicine has become a frustrating vocation. While physicians continue to learn new therapies and advanced surgical techniques to improve the lives of their patients, a constant drumbeat by both the government and the private sector to control costs is turning medicine from the art of healing to the art of battling byzantine bureaucracies. Meanwhile, […]
To Control Crime, Break Cycles of Drug and Welfare Addiction
December 3, 1994 With the Mid-term election finally over, many voters failed to notice a major figure who was not even on the ballot – Hartford Superior Court Judge Authur Spada. As a one-man grand juror, his honor had the courage to expose in his 18-month investigation the correlation between welfare dependency, drug addiction and […]