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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About: Dr. Patrick Neustatter
Recent Posts by Dr. Patrick Neustatter
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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A Deadly Disease People Don’t Know They’ve Got
The guy I saw the other day was there with a twisted ankle. “So” he asked, “why did the nurse need to ask me about my blood pressure and if there’s diabetes in the family?” What's You're Blood Sugar? It didn’t have much to do with his ankle it’s true, but what he didn’t know…
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