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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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Those Nasty Pathologists of Old

Talking to good friend and colleague, gastroenterologist Farrukh Jafri the other day, I got excited. We were talking about a dear friend of mine, and patient of his, who just had a liver cyst drained. My excitement was because he added to my lexicon of the vile pathological food analogies.  A slightly arcane excitement and…
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