The message to physicians is bad enough, but the message to patients is much worse. Black people are, in effect, being told White physicians are likely to quite literally damage our health.
Vaccines are yesterday’s cash cow. Is it a coincidence that ivermectin costs no more than $100 dollars per treatment course and molnupirivir costs $700 per 10-day course of treatment?
As the nation honors Martin Luther King each year, it is helpful to remember that this civil rights leader was not only a thinker but a man of action.
As today’s social justice navel-gazers are...
Given the severity of the COVID illness in black Americans, one gets the feeling that withholding treatment is a familiar tune. In the disgraceful 40-year Tuskegee experiment, treatment was withheld from black men so scientists could learn the natural history of the disease.
During my last visit to the grocery store, the clerk directed me to the hermetically sealed conveyor belt and, grinning proudly, said, “Welcome to the new normal.”