Monthly Archives: August 2008

Baseball Hall of Fame Permanently Contaminated

Written by Neil Kurtzman | 20th August 2008

Share Walter O’Malley was recently inducted into Baseball’s Hall of Fame. If you grew up in Brooklyn when the Brooklyn Dodgers were still there as I did there is no worse villain than Walter O’Malley. O’Malley who moved the Dodgers to Los Angeles was recently elected to baseball’s Hall of Fame. The honor is as…


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Screening for Prostate Cancer – Again

Written by Neil Kurtzman | 8th August 2008

Share I’ve already reviewed this topic in an earlier post, but it keeps coming back. The Aug 5, 2008 issue of the Annals of Internal Medicine contains two papers dealing with this issue. The first presents Screening for Prostate cancer: US Preventative Services Task Force Recommendation. It concludes what has been obvious to those not…


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Why Your Doctor Doesn't Need a Raise

Written by Neil Kurtzman | 5th August 2008

Share An article in Boston Magazine entitled Why Your Doctor Needs a Raise could be the emblem for what’s wrong with the delivery of medical care in the Western world. The article examines the condition of medicine in the Bay State a year after the start of its government sponsored system of medical insurance. The…


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