John Lantos
Donate a Kidney, Visit Yellowstone
When Martha Gershun donated a kidney, it cost her about $6000 out-of-pocket. The costs were for lost work, travel, and other incidental...
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John Lantos
- Jun 2, 2022
- 2 min
COVID Orphans: The Hidden Pandemic
Children are less likely than adults to die of COVID-19. But over 200,000 children in the United States have lost a home caregiver – a...
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John Lantos
- Jun 1, 2022
- 2 min
Good science without pain
Are there ever situations in which a painful sham procedure can be done (with analgesia) in order to increase the scientific rigour of...
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John Lantos
- May 28, 2022
- 4 min
School shootings and political will
Americans love their guns. They vote based on that passion. Politicians follow the votes. A recent Pew poll shows a deeply divided...
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John Lantos
- May 23, 2022
- 3 min
Redonda Vaught and the Stench of Corruption
A stench of corruption hangs over the whole debacle of the trial and sentencing of nurse Redonda Vaught. She was the designated...
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- May 11, 2022
- 4 min
California U-Turn on Vaccine Mandates
The California legislature appears to have caved to pressure from opponents of a COVID vaccine mandate for schoolkids. I’d prefer to...
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- May 9, 2022
- 2 min
Leonard Cohen and Samuel Alito
“There’s gonna be a meter on your bed that will disclose what everybody knows.” In Roe v. Wade, Justice Blackmun wrote, “The Constitution...
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- Apr 28, 2022
- 2 min
Free RaDonda Vaught
RaDonda Vaught, a nurse, made a mistake. As a result of her mistake, a patient died. She promptly reported the error to the hospital’s...
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- Apr 27, 2022
- 2 min
Thirteen Ways of Looking at Henrietta Lacks
Wallace Stevens wrote “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird” to suggest that what we see is never simply what is there. Seeing always...
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- Apr 26, 2022
- 2 min
The Moral Cost of Methodologic Rigor
What sort of sicko would want to give a critically ill baby a useless and painful shot? Only a sadist! Or a scientist! The history of...
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- Apr 13, 2022
- 3 min
Data dreams, distrust, and democracy
Modern medicine is both dehumanized and dehumanizing. But that may be the goal. Medicine works best when it reduces individuals to...
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- Apr 11, 2022
- 2 min
The Pope and Perinatal Palliative Care
We were excited to hear the Pope. (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30097527/_ We followed the colorfully clad Swiss Guards through a...
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- Apr 10, 2022
- 2 min
Saving premature babies and abortion rights.
Here's a question that may seem weird: Should we let premature babies die to preserve abortion rights? The New York Times thinks so. It...
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- Apr 9, 2022
- 2 min
Let's talk about gender identity
I'll admit it: I am afraid to write about gender. I'm sure to say the wrong things. I'll say "gender dysphoria" when I should say...
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- Apr 9, 2022
- 2 min
Vaccine hesitancy: the appearance of the bull
"Do you know how many shots they give to two month old babies?? Five! Five different shots. And some are combinations. That can't be...
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