Interactive Map Of Sources Of 33,000 Gun Deaths In America.

Source: FiveThirtyEight

The Three Pillars of the Medical-Industrial Complex – and the Physician. Part 4. Inside the White House – Cost vs. Coverage.

VIEW ENTIRE SERIES Mike Magee When President Obama entered office in 2008, and made the political assessment that it was now or never for health care reform, he saw waste and excess everywhere he looked. As New York Times columnist, Steven Brill, explained in 2015, he found: an $86 billion expenditure annually for ineffective treatments […]

Why the CDC, the WHO, and the IOC say “The Show Must Go On” in Brazil.

Mike Magee NYU Ethicist Arthur Caplan (formerly from Penn), is in the news again. This time, representing 149 other worldwide scientists who are advising the WHO and CDC to pressure the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to postpone this summer’s 2016 Summer Olympics due to begin on July 5th. The 10,500 athletes from around the world […]

Death by Environment: The Boomerang Effect of Poor Environmental Policy

Source:IndexMundi Mike Magee The WHO released a report this week that suggested that nearly 1/4 of all human mortality (22.4%) in 2012 was secondary to unhealthy environments. We have known for some time that planetary health has an important impact on human health. It effects not only the quantity of years an average planetary citizen […]

Forward Psychiatry in WW II – The Bias Toward Medicalization and Pharmacologic Intervention.

Mike Magee My father was one of the 45,000 military doctors to serve in WW II. He entered active duty after his internship in late 1943. By March, 1944, he found himself in Texas receiving special training in Psychiatry. Six months later he would be awarded a Bronze star for his service as an emergency […]

Audit for the New Health Care Professional

Mike Magee In the shift from old models of paternalistic, reactive and interventional care to anticipatory, team-based, inclusive preventive care, health professionals need to think more strategically about their roles as leaders of the health delivery team. What is health really but the maximization of human potential? How do we best connect patients to information, […]

Dealing with Cholera – Educational Video and WHO Cholera Vaccine Position Paper.

As the recently reported cholera epidemic in Kenya illustrates, this infectious disease remains a killer. The video above, produced in 2006, provides an open source summary of Cholera well worth viewing. The original program (Health Politics) no longer exists. But the transcript of this program can be downloaded HERE. The 2010 WHO position paper on […]

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