tertiary educational institution, or part of such an institution, that teaches medicine and awards a professional degree for physicians and surgeons
Shawn Fleetwood of the Federalist advocates cutting taxpayer funding for the federal government’s leading health agency. Following years of bureaucratic malfeasance in the name of science, the Centers for Disease…
View in your browser. Everyone is talking about the $22 billion+ House Budget and what will happen to the spending plan now that it has crossed chambers and is in…
In my new Spotlight report on occupational licensing, “Guild By Association,” I examine among other things the primary justification of the boards; namely, that they are necessary for public safety.…
Thanks to some brave souls who believe every life has value, 13-month-old Baby Joseph has been moved from Canada, where the government death panel deemed him unworthy of life, to…
Disturbing reflections from physicians on the fraudulent physicians’ notes from Wisconsin: Physician Paul Hsieh on the fake sick notes: ?Although this might seem an outrageous breach of professional ethics, it…
As I was applying to Duke’s med school last night, I came across this one remarkable paragraph. No joke! “Duke University prohibits discrimination and harassment and provides equal employment opportunity…
The latest Carolina Journal Online exclusive features Duke Cheston’s report on medical schools focusing more on “bedside manner” than grades and test scores when making admission decisions. John Hood’s Daily…
Remember the stories of Soviet economic bureaucrats decreeing that a million bolts be manufactured, but forgetting to manufacture the nuts that go with them? Congress has done the same thing:…
I’m first in line to defend a woman’s right to pose for Playboy if she wants to. After all, freedom and free will includes the right to make an unwise,…
Brian Balfour at Civitas’s Red Clay Citizen yesterday provided a good summary of the public hearing on HB2688 to create an “Access to Health Care Policy Council.” I was troubled…
Today’s Wall Street Journal has a great piece by Dr. Robert Swerlick, who teaches at Emory University’s School of Medicine. His point is that Americans can readily find health care…
Writing at Division of Labour, Larry White has more to say about the letter that supposedly shows so many economists in favor of increasing the minimum wage: When are 650…