Tag: Pain

  • When Healthy People are Murdered and the Terminally Ill are Prevented from Dying

    In the name of Hippocrates, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival. — Luis Buñuel, My Last Sigh, January 1982 I recently lost someone dear to me and watched as they died in almost unrelenting agony over a period of three weeks. As American health care is dominated […]

  • Andy and Opie Go Fishing

    Andy and Opie Go Fishing

    It was such a bucolic setting. Even now, more than fifty years later, I can still see little Opie (Ron Howard) in his rolled-up jeans scrambling beside Andy; both carry fishing poles as they head to the lake. It introduced every episode of The Andy Griffith Show, along with that catchy whistled tune. It’s what first comes to mind when […]

  • Coming to Terms with a Lifetime of Trauma While in Prison

    I am a Black man in prison, and I want to talk about trauma. I want us all to be able to talk about trauma. I’m here because when I was a teenager and young man, I made many bad life choices involving drugs and violence. Living with the consequences of my actions is not […]

  • Peter Hotez’s War Against Science

    Image from Ferrovial press release, “Baylor College of Medicine Receives $162,000 Donation from Ferrovial and Webber Amid COVID-19 Crisis” This article was written by a physician who writes using the pseudonym “A Midwestern Doctor”. Both Dr. Pierre Kory and I are fans of this work and insights, I subscribe to his substack, and you may […]

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