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We’re Number One

March 22, 2015

We’re Number One

You may have heard that Texas leads the US in new employment. Well, here’s one reason. The University of Texas at Austin is the state’s flagship institution of higher learning. It takes a lot of administrative support to keep such a big university turning out scholars in  Architecture to Writing and  everything in between. There […]

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Medical Costs and Wrong Assumptions

April 13, 2011

Medical Costs and Wrong Assumptions

Bob Duffy Director of Ipsos Social Research Institute, is a true believer in governmental social planning. In an opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal he opines that people are now ready for the government to help us make the “right” choices that will benefit our health. He’s particularly interested in getting people to stop […]

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How I Spent New Year’s Eve

January 4, 2008

If you think healthcare is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it’s free – PJ O’Rourke I hope you had fun celebrating the New Year. I was supposed to be at a gay soiree – well not gay, festive. You know what I mean. I didn’t make the party. Instead I […]

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The Making of a Doctor

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Medicine & Opera is Neil Kurtzman’s blog: opera and concert reviews, singers and composers, and commentary on medicine and science, from a physician who has also lectured and written extensively on opera. More than 1700 articles since December 2007. Browse the full archive.

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Neil Kurtzman

Neil Kurtzman

Physician. Professor. Writer.

Neil A Kurtzman MD is the Grover E Murray Professor Emeritus and University Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Department of Internal Medicine at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center in Lubbock. He has combined careers in clinical medicine, education, basic research, and administration for more than 40 years.

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Opera, music, and medicine.

Medicine & Opera is Neil Kurtzman’s comments and reviews of opera, music, and medicine — more than 1700 articles since December 2007.

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