I keep telling everyone “it’s been like a death in the family.” But my take is that it was a preventable death. I liken it to a diabetic who dies for lack of insulin. Not because insulin hasn’t been invented. Not because no one knows that’s the right treatment. But because there’s no money to…
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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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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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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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