Ah, the nanny state. Keeping people from making bad decisions, keeping them safe and sound. No transfats in that hamburger, punch in a code word or your car won’t start, wear your seatbelt when driving and your helmet when you’re on your Harley. Well, as a doc I’ve agreed with most of these things. But [...]

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“The saddest acre on earth” one mourner informs us. Section 60 is not a term that most of us have ever heard. Section 60 is the part of Arlington reserved for those brave men and women that have given their life in Iraq and Afghanistan. Funerals and cemeteries are sad events and places at the [...]

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That is the banner title on Mr. Baez’s web site! In the light of his involvement in the missing Florida child Caylee Anthony case and his defense of likely tot killer Casey Anthony this in my mind is a stretch of my imagination. Justice in this case will begin when the jury returns a guilty [...]

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“Kill Him!” The tactics of the Republican Party are more and more beginning to resemble the brutal ones of the CIA that were used to remove disfavored political leaders in the Middle East and particularly Latin America again and again during the past century. One cannot in a short post detail all the horrors country [...]

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Did you know that October was Domestic Violence Awareness Month? Domestic violence can be done by men or women, occurs with married couples or in informal relationships, heterosexual couples or gay couples. As a doctor, I’ve treated cases among all ethnic groups, among the rich and poor, and in educated and uneducated people. Yes, fellows, [...]

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