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Forget the Flowers . . . . . . Where Have All the Doctor’s Gone?

If you’ve tried to make an appointment with a primary care doctor recently, the challenge will make you understand why I was leaning on the two young women I was working with at the Moss Clinic. Why I was trying to persuade them to be primary care doctors themselves.  One a foreign medical graduate from…
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“I Cannot Tell What This Love May Be”

You aren’t to know, but, appropriately, I am writing this on Valentine’s Day. Appropriate because I am writing about love – which you might think a little squishy – but it has relevance to your health. I am inspired to write about love in part because our new minister at the Fredericksburg Unitarian Fellowship, David…
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Pharmaceutical and Food Titans at War

I see it as something of a battle of the Titans. The pharmaceutical industry coming up with glucagon-like-peptides (GLP-1 agonist) such as Ozempic, Wegovy and Trulicity. They stop people craving processed, addictive foods and this seems to have put the food industry in a panic. A report by Tomas Weber on the New York Times…
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Corporate Greed Destroying Healthcare

You may not have heard the story of Steward Health Care, but it epitomizes the growing trend of how healthcare is being treated as a commodity to invest in – to the detriment of we healthcare consumers.  I should be writing about gall bladders or thyroid problems you might think. Or other more strictly medical…
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