The trouble with America is the Americans. Maybe that’s not a very gracious way to talk about the citizens of my host nation. But Americans, or their gun culture, is what I see as the gun problem in the US. It is the culture in the US that seems to tolerate school massacres – as well as…
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About: Dr. Patrick Neustatter
Recent Posts by Dr. Patrick Neustatter
Should the Beliefs of Pro-Lifers Control the Fate of the Fetus and Mother?
I wrote a column about guns once - and my friends told me I was crazy and putting my life in jeopardy. Wanting to write about abortion may be the same. Another hot button issue – such that it has led to violence at abortion clinics and the murder of doctors. My prompt to write…
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Americanizing the NHS
On a recent trip home to England – long delayed by COVID – I was disturbed to see a trend in healthcare there. To see US healthcare being exported to the UK. Or British medicine being Americanized. Socialized Healthcare Healthcare in Britain has, until recently, been provided almost exclusively by the National Health Service (NHS)…
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Legislators Force Dying Patients to go on Suffering
The Virginia Senate recently denied the ability of terminally ill patients to foreshorten their suffering. This was the consequence of a recent vote on a bill proposed by Senator Ghazala Hashmi to legalize medical aid in dying (MAID). The bill failed to make it out of Committee. I wrote about MAID (where a doctors can prescribe…
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