Children, families, communities and schools are being harmed. High stakes testing and accountability-based reforms undermine our democracy and do not work.
Dora Calott Wang, M.D. | Posted 05.25.2011
Medicine has always been grounded in humanitarian ideals, as reflected in codes of ethics. The humanitarian roots of American medicine are evident in our many hospitals named for saints.
Lennard Davis | Posted 05.25.2011
Hippocrates is turning over in his grave.
Angel Cabrera, Ph.D. | Posted 05.25.2011
As true professionals, business leaders must accept their responsibility to create real, sustainable value.
Joe Amon | Posted 05.25.2011
Usually, when one thinks of torture or cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment, prisoners--not patients-- come to mind. The mistreatment of detainees i...
Qanta Ahmed, MD | Posted 11.17.2011
That an anesthesiologist could be on tour with Michael administering propofol is both baffling and repugnant. The King of Pop was effectively anaesthetized every night, while our profession was asleep at the wheel.
Gahl Eden Sasson | Posted 11.17.2011
According to astrology, which was developed as a tool to understand the cycles of the seasons, now is the best time in 250 years to transform the health care institutions.
Gary Cohan | Posted 05.25.2011
How can a vulnerable physician resist the temptation to "bend the rules" for these "tabloid elites?"
Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 05.25.2011
This letter speaks eloquently to an issue critical to the administration and the conduct of our society.
Jacob Heilbrunn | Posted 05.25.2011
Simply releasing the documents about their embrace of torture has further soiled Bush and Cheney's legacy. But whether that is punishment enough is another matter.
Timothy D. Slekar | Posted 09.06.2011