Ms. Kathleen Cataford – a seventy-seven-year-old school nurse at the Kinsella Magnet School in Hartford – was placed on administrative leave by Superintendent, Dr. Leslie Torres-Rodriguez, for posting the following on Facebook:        “As a public school nurse, I have an 11yo female student on puberty blockers and a dozen identifying as non-binary, […]

        The COVID pandemic is entering its third year and a political consensus is now forming – we have to live with this virus.       In spite of confusing and conflicting policies by our public officials, COVID has followed basic epidemiological trends of past pandemics – the bubonic plague, small pox, the influenza epidemic of 1918 […]

         The greed and inefficiency of hospital conglomerates is destroying health care. Thanks to the costs of electronic medical records (EMR) and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) imposed on physicians, independent practices – especially primary care – can no longer afford to stay business. They are forced to sell out to […]