Category: Health Care

  • “Proud to be an American:” Is it a phrase that is empty bravado? Or is it a spur to becoming a real patriot by recognizing our nation’s shortcomings while trying to improve upon them?

  • How can I now criticize the U.S. health care system? Just  five days before this was written, I found myself in the St. Luke’s Hospital (in Milwaukee) emergency room, having been taken there on a lovely Sunday morning with chest pains.   The pains, along with unexpected shortness of breath in the previous two days,…