Jane M. Orient, M.D.

The idea of “flattening the curve” was to prevent hospitals from being overwhelmed. It was a delaying tactic, with no prospect of ending the disease.

The American Medical Association and many other professional organizations demand “peer-reviewed science” before they will recommend or even accept the re-purposing of a long-established anti-malaria drug to treat or prevent COVID-19.

The word has leaked out on a potential cheap treatment for COVID-19, the antimalarial drug hydroxychloroquine.

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Elizabeth Warren and other Democrats have been promising universal healthcare, which will supposedly save more than the $30 trillion to $40 trillion it will cost. Or if the cost is Warren’s $52 trillion, we’ll import more (rich?) taxpayers.

The Democrats “debate” looked like an auction to me, or a poker game: “I’ll see you and raise you $10 trillion dollars!”

If the government is the ultimate authority on your “health care,” remember that its tools for checking whether a child has a life-threatening disease such as meningitis include battering rams and assault rifles.

Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.)  (“AOC”) is unhappy that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell plans to bring the Green New Deal to a vote—although Democrat presidential hopefuls support it.

Stocks of hospital and Medicaid-contracted managed-care companies plunged on the announcement of Judge Reed O’Connor’s ruling that the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is unconstitutional.

This is the one hundredth anniversary of the great influenza pandemic of 1918. In his book The Great Influenza, John M. Barry described it as the deadliest plague in history.

With all the talk about “evidence-based medicine,” you might think that doctors were becoming much more focused on rigorous science.

A bill that would give doctors the right to defend themselves if brought before the state licensure board, the Louisiana State Board of Medical Examiners (LSBME), was heard in the Louisiana state House of Representatives on May 2.

The Trump Administration has announced the removal of climate change from the list of national security threats.