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Joseph Bentivegna, M.D.August 20, 2014

Barbarism Is Part of Human Nature

The most disturbing book published in recent memory is Hitler’s Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust, by Daniel Jonah Goldenhagen. With overwhelming evidence and logic, Goldenhagen debunks the myth that the Holocaust was the creation of an evil man who terrorized the German people into “following orders.” Rather, he postulates it was the logical […]

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Joseph Bentivegna, M.D.August 18, 2014

A Real Health Threat — Debt

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 […]

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Joseph Bentivegna, M.D.August 16, 2014

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 […]

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Doctor Bentivegna is an ophthalmologist living in Connecticut. He has written numerous op-ed pieces for The Hartford Courant and The New York Times regarding health care, tort reform, and the political situation in Haiti.

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