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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Are Non-profit Hospitals Fulfilling Their Charitable Obligation?
The recent Fredericksburg Planning commission hearing about Mary Washington Healthcare’s application for approval of a $10 million building project got me thinking about the expenditures of nonprofit hospitals, and do they give a fair shake in fulfilling their charitable obligation? The medical literature is suggesting that tax exemption for non-profit hospitals should be reformed. How…
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