Tag Archives: public health

When Physicians Pay Attentions to Costs, They Promote Public Health!

Posted on Friday, April 4, 2014

This week, my good friend Reshma Jagsi and I published an article in the New England Journal of Medicine, in which we explain why physicians are doing their job, as physicians, when they pay attention to healthcare costs. Here is a … Continue reading →

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Should Our Government Combat the Obesity Epidemic?

Posted on Wednesday, April 17, 2013

Here is video from a talk I recently gave at the University of Wisconsin, laying out a few of the reasons I think the government needs to play a role in combating the obesity epidemic. If you dig further into … Continue reading →

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Why James Bond Needs to Wear Condoms

Posted on Thursday, March 14, 2013

Think of the last few times you watched a popular movie that involved any kind of sex scene? Not as in pornographic sex, but as in two characters ended up in bed together and had, ahem, conjugal relations. In how … Continue reading →

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I Will Gladly Pay More Taxes to Expand High Schools Sports

Posted on Thursday, January 31, 2013

My 14-year-old son Jordan did not make the JV basketball team in his high school.  Not very surprising really.  There is no freshmen basketball team at his school and only six freshmen made the JV, out of a class of more … Continue reading →

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When Americans Rejected Small Pox Vaccines

Posted on Thursday, September 6, 2012

When I lived in Ann Arbor, my children attended a public school where upwards of 15% of kids were not vaccinated for mumps because their left-wing parents didn’t trust the vaccine industry. Meanwhile on the right end of the political … Continue reading →

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