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The real reason we have a vaccine problem

October 20, 2004

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A good decision

August 14, 2004

Antitrust Lawsuit Over Medical Residency System Is Dismissed A federal district judge in Washington on Thursday dismissed an antitrust lawsuit that contended medical residents are forced to participate in a system that ensures they work long hours for low wages. The ruling, a major setback to the two-year-old challenge to the physician training system, follows [...]

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Stop the insanity!

July 1, 2004

We have an unnecessary prohibition on marijuana. Just ask any policeman whether he/she would rather encounter someone stoned or drunk. Just ask any physician which drug causes more problems for their patients. Somehow we have lumped marijuana into a general category of which it does not have membership. Crack cocaine causes many problems. It is [...]

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Supreme Court to review medical marijuana

June 29, 2004

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Point of Law

June 25, 2004

Great new blog – dedicated to similar issues as Overlawyered – PointofLaw.com is a web magazine sponsored by the Manhattan Institute that brings together information and opinion on the U.S. litigation system. I recommend going to June 23 – several discussions of Herbert’s ill advised malpractice article. viagra free viagra buy viagra online generic viagra [...]

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Pharmaceutical trial data – what we do not know

June 3, 2004

New York State Official Sues Drug Maker Over Test Data Understanding the problem – Richard Merrill, a University of Virginia law professor and a former general counsel at the F.D.A, compared Mr. Spitzer’s suit to product-liability lawsuits by individuals. He said the suit was the first by a public official against the drug industry. Pharmaceutical [...]

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On drug legalization

June 1, 2004

Trent over at Proximal Tubule has ranted today on drug prohibition. He did not realize that I had blogged on this issue last year. Here is his take – Paternalism In Medicine – Part III: The War On Drugs and one of my many posts – Canada providing safe sites of IV drug users First [...]

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Fear of HIPAA

November 13, 2003

Read Overlawyered’s take on how physicians are responding to HIPAA. Medical privacy madness, cont’d … Silly doctors, to be so spooked by the prospect of $10,000 fines for overstepping hundreds of pages of guidelines. viagra free viagra buy viagra online generic viagra how does viagra work cheap viagra buy viagra buy viagra online inurl viagra [...]

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Economics and the match lawsuit

October 6, 2003

Remember the Match lawsuit. It still looms. This lawsuit claims that the Match artificially suppresses housestaff salaries. But one economist argues against that claim. Harvard economist argues that Match is not anticompetitive The National Resident Matching Program is not the culprit behind residents’ relatively low wages, says Alvin Roth, PhD, a Harvard University economist and [...]

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The intent of HIPPA

September 18, 2003

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