The date you will read this is April 23rd, but I am writing this article on April 4, 2018. The latter date is relevant because it is the 50th anniversary of the assassination of civil rights leader Martin Luther King,…
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THE VALUE OF LIFE II
Any ideology that lessens the value of life from “priceless” to “worthless” therein allows people to be treated not as neighbors, but as commodities. At no other point in my life has the harsh, cruel, oppressive, and perverse order in…
THE VALUE OF LIFE: MICHAEL BROWN, ERIC GARNER, TAMIR RICE, & JOHN CRAWFORD
There are many tragedies in recent memory where select members of the police (a group officially sanctioned to use force) recklessly use guns against those who are unarmed. The tragic cases of Michael Brown and Eric Garner rest heavily on…
END7 AND THE NEGLECTED TROPICAL DISEASES
Practicing medicine in this country truly is a luxury because as a physician, I have access to all the tools I could ever imagine to treat my patients. Even if the place I am in doesn’t have something or someone,…
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FOOD INSECURITY
When people think of the USA, normally they think of excess, opportunity and wealth. However, I was recently surprised to find that, despite living in a first-world nation, we seem to have a growing third-world problem: food insecurity. The state…
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