Monthly Archives: January 2012

The Doctor You Never Heard Of Who Saved 800,000 Lives

Most New Englanders can recite half the names on the roster of the Super Bowl-bound Patriots. But most  New Englanders, myself included, would be hard-pressed to identify Dr. Mary Ellen Avery. And that is a travesty. Dr. Avery’s life, and passing, came to my attention several weeks ago in her obituary in The New York [...]

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Rich And Poor Alike Receive Terrible Health Care

As featured in USA Today, Dr. Otis Browley, chief medical officer of the American Cancer Society, has recently penned a book entitled “How We Do Harm: A Doctor Breaks Ranks About Being Sick In America.” One of the book’s themes is how just being wealth and having private health insurance is no guarantee of getting [...]

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