Health Care
Philly to Open Transgender Homeless Shelter
In September, Jaden Hensley was turned away from a city-funded homeless shelter for being transgendered. Discrimination against the LGBT community is in violation of city […]
CHOP Study Shows Sports-Related Knee Injuries on the Rise
Physicians at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia conducted a study analyzing injury data in kids and adolescents from 1999 to 2011. The study showed that […]
A Guy Cut Off His Own Arm
Authorities are trying to figure out why a guy in North Philly went all Saw on himself by cutting off his arm at the elbow […]
The Check-Up: Hospital Germs Are Everywhere
I came across two tangentially related stories this week that I really wish I’d never read. The first, about hand washing rates in hospitals, found […]
Abortion is Personal
I’m getting sick of it. Sick of measure after measure, new legal stipulation after stipulation passing, aimed at limiting access to abortion—locally and nationally—like this […]
The Medicare Scare is Heading To Philly
Something happened in western New York this week that is ruining the Memorial Day weekend for the handful of newly-elected Republican Congressmen in our area.
Physical Therapists Get “Grin and Bear It” Patients
I hurt my back skiing this past January. No big deal. Coming from a large family, I learned to shake it off, man up, rub […]
Health Care Repeal: First on the Tea Party To-Do List
After an unusual week of temperance on Capitol Hill in the wake of the Arizona tragedy, you can expect things to heat up so fast […]
Our Federal Government Is Pimping Out Doctors
Medicare now has a regulation that will pay an incentive fee to primary care physicians who voluntarily undertake a discussion of end-of-life care issues with […]
Health Insurance Hell
My business, which a couple of friends and I started in 1976, and I have owned outright since 1980, is now down to just one […]
Why We Should Stop Caring So Much About Breast Cancer
Our managing editor for Phillymag.com thinks that breast cancer awareness has become a huge money-making scheme. Do you agree? In case you’ve been hiding under […]
What the Hell Happened to the Doctor’s Office?
When I was a kid, doctors still made house calls. I know, I must be a hundred years old, right? But, I’m not. It wasn’t […]
“A Major Landmark In American History”
For nearly two decades Arthur Caplan, PhD, director of Penn’s Center for Bioethics, has been one of America’s leading voices on health and medicine. I […]
To: The Anti-Health Care Tea Baggers (And The Party Of No)
Dear Anti-Health Care Tea Baggers (And The Party Of No), First of all, your name is all wrong, both from a sexual and a historical […]
How George W. Bush Helped Pass Health Care Reform
“I believe that the will of the people is reflected sooner or later in the will of the government.” So says the only man in […]