Medicine and Social Justice

My book, "Health, Medicine and Justice: Designing a fair and equitable healthcare system", is out and and widely available! Medicine and Social Justice will have periodic postings of my comments on issues related to, well, Medicine, and Social Justice, and Medicine and Social Justice. It will also look at Health, Workforce, health systems, and some national and global priorities

Monday, May 17, 2021

COVID, Vaccine, Racism, and Masks: Changing for better or for worse?

We are not yet out of the COVID pandemic. Not in the world, where hot spots linked to both bad luck and irresponsible arrogant governments...

Monday, April 5, 2021

We need more primary care to serve our people: Why do the medical schools lie?

Every year the nation’s medical schools graduate thousands of people with MD and DO degrees. But this is just the start of becoming a practi...

Sunday, March 21, 2021

"Values" based care: Public Health, Primary Care, and Medicare for All

Recently, a class of undergraduate freshmen I teach debated the issue “Health Care is a Human Right”. Although we later determined that most...

Saturday, March 6, 2021

DTC Advertising on TV illustrates the corruption and inequity of the US medical care system

I don’t watch a lot of live daytime TV. (In fact, I don’t watch a lot of live TV at any time.) I do see it several times a week for the 45...

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Josh Freeman: "The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much. It is whether we provide enough for those who have little." -- FDR

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