When it comes to health care reform, I think like my dog: In the end, only a few things really matter. For the dog, it’s food, friendship, her favorite worn tennis ball, a place to sleep and …
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Ahhh, springtime! Warm breezes waft the scent of cut grass, bright blossoms and cow manure past our nostrils. But wait — sniff more carefully. That’s not cow manure, that’s some of the national …
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I had every intention of keeping my mouth shut when the Maine Legislature, drowning in the state’s medical bills for its Medicaid health insurance program, incomprehensibly voted down a mandatory …
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I went through almost 300 of my old columns and made the smart things I have said over the last 10 years into this, my commencement address to graduates of 2009 (which makes for a very short address, the best kind).
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eveloped a little anxiety about the health of you and yours lately because of the swine flu threat? Good. Just don’t waste all of that angst on swine flu; save some of it for the stuff you …
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I am the doctor of pain these days. I treat it, listen to it, witness it, live with it, and pass it out. Pain seems to wait for me at every turn; the next patient, the next test result, the next …
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I like to think the reason Mainers use emergency departments more frequently than most other Americans is because I work there at night and these people want to come see me. It is all about me, after …
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It finally has become apparent to me that I am not immortal. Several acquaintances my age have suffered life-threatening illnesses, and at 52 I have reached an age where heart attacks are a surprise …
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