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What seems so clear in one moment can seem so misguided years later. This NY Times article, "Linda Fairstein, Once Cheered Faces Storms After 'When They See Us", by Elizabeth Harris and Julie Jacobs discusses the career of the famous sex crimes prosecutor, Linda...
Whether you are starting your career as a doctor or you are looking to make a change, it can be helpful to join other doctors in an established practice. The owners already have experience and a good reputation in the community. It can be a mutually beneficial trade....
It's not just emergency rooms; it's jails too. Decades ago, we wrongly warehoused the severely mentally ill. In the1970-1980s we abandoned that approach. In part, this was due to civil liberties lawsuits. It was also due to cultural change brought about by films such...
We are changing as a nation, and in one particular respect, not for the better. Jew hating and Jew killing is on the rise. Jews have generally felt safe to worship and gather as communities in the US since the founding of the Republic. AntiSemitism was prevalent for...
In 2018, the fight against sexual harassment expanded beyond Hollywood with the founding of Times’s Up. This year, Time’s Up Healthcare branched out to focus on more gender balance in healthcare leadership (women in medicine only hold 10 percent of chief executive...
One young primary care physician had received an offer and was in the process of moving. That all changed when she learned a provision in the contract would limit how she could spend her free time. A wave of mergers has increased the percentage of Catholic-owned or...
There is no more conservative value than "respect your elders." See Ten Commandments. We could add "show good manners". It is clear that these values were not present among the boys in this video of teenagers taunting a native American elder. It apparently never...
The first bill of impeachment of President Trump has been introduced this Congress by Rep. Brad Sherman of California, H Res. 13. The bill was referred to the House Judiciary Committee. The bill is based on a charge of obstruction of justice for firing FBI director...
This article, "When the Police Become Prosecutors" in The New York Times, taught me something about the criminal law I had no idea existed. In some states, many thousands of misdemeanor cases are brought by police officers without lawyers as prosecutors. The article,...
If you haven't been following this tale of corruption, this article, "FCA spent $15K on steak dinners for UAW", in The Detroit News, lays out the main point. Just like salespeople woo their customers, Chrysler executives wooed UAW leaders with meals and gifts before a...