Opinion
Prior authorization harms NC health care
Prior authorization allows insurance companies to delay treatment, overrule clinical judgment, and drain time from the exam room.
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Pregnancy care centers are worth every penny of state funding
The General Assembly should increase the funding to these centers in order to promote a culture of life in our state and to provide resources for vulnerable women and babies.
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Duke Health injecting race into care, firing doctors who object
Duke invited its employees to communicate with them about the science-backed anti-racism pledge, yet Dr. Conger was terminated after asking for scientific and clinical data to back its claims.
Opinion
The W(rong)PATH on gender medicine
WPATH (World Professional Association for Transgender Health) produces standards of care that are considered the gold standard for transgender care. Colleges, universities, the media, and even churches adopted WPATH’s approach, whether or not they realized where it came from. Recent revelations have shown that not all that glitters is gold. More than 100 pages of...
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Senate Bill 20 can be debated, but legislation on abortion was necessary
Roe v. Wade was the product of a tortured legal attempt by the United States Supreme Court to find the right to abortion within the emanations of the 14th amendment to the United States Constitution. Those emanations — or “penubmras,” to quote the 1973 Roe majority — led the justices to discover an unenumerated right...
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We’ve been here before on ‘compassionate’ experimental medical treatments
I’ve heard it said that “the only thing we learn from history is that we don’t learn from history.” As I consider the enigmatic issue and the paradoxical problems that loom before me, I think the question at hand is often very simple. Take, for instance, “gender-affirming care.” I believe the appropriate question for this issue...
Opinion
Liberty vs lockdown: follow the science
The last 2.5 years of the pandemic have been dominated by unelected medical bureaucrats making proclamations about lockdowns, social distancing, mask wearing, and other draconian measures based on dogma not data. They are in positions of power in the 3-letter agencies of the NIH, FDA, CDC and WHO with unchecked influence over elected government officials...
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Call to end ‘horse collar tackle’ term and other outrageous stories
Below are a few recent stories that caught my attention. One of the more amusing recurring bits of news is media attempts to prop up the Biden administration. It’s not going well, obviously. Even Chuck Todd of NBC said Democrats face a “shellacking.” Well over two-thirds of Americans say the country is headed in the...
Opinion
Should big tech shield us from science, even if it’s controversial?
When it comes to cancel culture and big tech, nothing is more high profile right now than medical doctors or other health professionals being de-platformed over dissenting views on COVID-19.
Opinion
Resumed, the naming wars have
Why are people on the far right ‘pro virus’? The question came up on Quora, the social question and answer website. Despite its faulty premise, it sounded sincere. I had an epiphany while thinking about whether to answer that question: Accusing the far right of being “pro virus” is every bit as telling as accusing...
Opinion
New federal guidelines on mammograms are about money, not health
RALEIGH -- This is not a health science debate. It's not about the credentials of people on the new federal panel, though in a real debate it would be. It has nothing to do with the science, but is and will be repudiated soundly by same.
Opinion
A Health Care Reform For States
Occupational-licensing laws written decades ago, at the behest of the very professions they are supposed to regulate, represent an impediment to health care reform.
