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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About: Dr. Patrick Neustatter
Recent Posts by Dr. Patrick Neustatter
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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Confusing Christmas in Australia
Australians are confused when it comes to Christmas. I know this because I was down-under once, doctoring at Christmas time – following my great grandfather’s footsteps, who was an Irishman/doctor who got a wild hair and emigrated to Australia in the gold rush of the 1850’s - on the same boat many of his fellow…
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Feeding The Food Insecure in Fredericksburg
This is what I wrote for Front Porch for November The mantra for ‘The Table’ - a Fredericksburg program that provides free produce to whoever needs it – seems to be “whole person health.” They are taking care of the spirit as well as the body. Run by St George’s Episcopal church, and staffed by…
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- April 7, 2023 on Am I a Curmudgeon Because I don’t want to Declare my Pronouns?
- December 28, 2020 on You Think All Screening Tests Must Be Good?