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Patrick Hahn's Links
- The Medical-Industrial Complex
- President Obama, healthcare reform, and Animal Farm
- Animal experimentation and the shining city on the sea
- The checkup
- Health care, breast cancer, and "Benefits-eligible" employees
- "Death panels," prostate cancer, and health care rationing
- Letter from physicians to the American people and my reply
- Pulling the plug on Grandma
- They're as mad as heck and they're not gonna take it anymore
- Is screening for cancer a giant con job? Part 3
- The most important thing to remember about health care
- Review of "Our Daily Meds" by Melody Peterson
- Time to pull the plug on employer-based health insurance
- A depressing proposal
- The health care industry tips its hand
- Has medicine become the modern-day substitute for religion? Part 2
- Should doctors kill? Part 3
- Is screening for cancer a giant con job Part 2
- Big Fat Lies
- Remembering Doctor Heller
- Physician, heal thyself
- Should doctors kill? Part 2 EDITOR'S PICK
- On driving a spike through a child's eye sockets
- Has medicine become the modern-day substitute for religion?
- Free market versus "socialized medicine"= A false choice
- Blaming the uninsured EDITOR'S PICK
- A tepid defense of animal experimentation
- Why do people say heart transplants "save lives?" UPDATED
- The perils of genetic engineering
- Should doctors kill?
- Is screening for cancer a giant con job? UPDATED
- Vassals of the Medical-Industrial Complex
- The War On Drugs
- War On Drugs = War On Us All UPDATED AGAIN
- War On Drugs = War On Sanity Part 2
- War On Drugs = War On Sanity
- The Nutritional-Industrial Complex
- Fresh takes up where Food Inc. leaves off
- Food Inc. pulls back the veil
- High-fructose corn syrup and highly misleading advertising
- Michael Pollan's subversive proposal Part 2
- Michael Pollan's subversive proposal: Eat food
- War On Food EDITOR'S PICK
- Personal reminiscences
- Remembering Mom
- Remembering Grampa
- Remembering Uncle Walter
- Remembering Doctor Heller
- Scientific articles
- The Walking Dead
- Scared to Death
- Personal essays
- The Washouts
- The Small Girl
- Books of interest
- Our Daily Meds by Melody Peterson
- In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan
- Overdo$ed America by John Abramson, M.D.
- The Truth About the Drug Companies by Marcia Angell, M.D.
- Selling Sickness by Ray Moynihan and Alan Cassels
- Uninsured in America by Susan Starr Sered, Ph.D., and Rushika Fenrandopulle, Ph.D.
- Sick Girl by Amy Silverstein
- Sick by Jonathan Cohn
- Overtreated by Shannon Brownlee
- Worried Sick by Nortin M. Hadler, M.D.
- My Lobotomy by Howard Dully
- Should I Be Tested for Cancer by H. Gilbert Welch, M.D., M.P.H.
- The Lobotomist by Jack El-Hai
- Medical Nemesis by Ivan Ilich
- Confessions of a Medical Heretic by Robert S. Mendelsohn, M.D.
On December 1, 2008, Lorain County Sherriff’s deputies stormed the home of John and Jacqueline Stowers of LaGrange, Ohio, where they run a natural foods co-op called the Manna Storehouse, which distributes locally produced food, including grass-fed beef and lamb, free-range chicken, or… Read full post »
Here’s an article by Len Doyal, Professor Emeritus of Bioethics at the University of London, who argues that doctors should have the right to kill us when they judge that our lives are no longer worth living.
In fairness to Professor Doyal, I should point out that he… Read full post »
According to this article in the Baltimore Sun, Maryland lawmakers and CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield have introduced a proposal to force uninsured state residents to shell out $3,000 apiece every year for health insurance, whether they want to or not. Residents who refused to pony up w… Read full post »
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