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Dorothy Guellec
My background was for many years academic, but teacher burnout, I guess, was inevitable and I became a free lance Journalist specializing in health related issues. I specifically am interested in third world health problems, end of life issues, "futile care" the wisdom of the business model for health care, the potential abuse of physician assisted suicide, cross cultural stumbling blocks in the physician patient relationship. I have an MA degree in French from Harvard, an MA from Columbia University in TESOL (teaching English to speakers of other languages) plus too many years of experience. I tend to be longwinded , so I will sum this up by saying that my passions are: human rights, tolerance, peace and as John Done said, "no man is an island, entire of itself (20th century English, not his) everyman is a piece of the Continent, a part of the maine: if a clod be washed away by the Sea..." and at the very end "therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls: It tolls for thee..."
Guellec In all of American medicine, the only place that Federal Law guarantees Americans the right to a physician 24-7 is in…
Guellec Profit-driven healthcare is what we have today, but the end may be in sight, at least the former JAMA Editor George…
Guellec It’s all about altruism man, not politics. It would be unthinkable in the US to offer much of anything for nothing,…
Dorothy Guellec According to the FBI there are 240 million firearms in America today. Former U.S. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop identified…
Dorothy Guellec The American Medical Association believes it may have discovered a root cause for the many medical errors – patients themselves.…
Dorothy Guellec Drug companies are giving away medications if you know how to ask. This is the best-kept secret because it is…
Why are the long-standing ethics of our health care system suddenly so threatened? Maybe it is all about money, or is…
Dorothy Guellec Why are the long-standing ethics of our health care system suddenly so threatened? Maybe it is all about money, or…
Dorothy Guellec In the two years since the FDA began an experiment to let the mass media broadcast the prescription-drug message directly…