UCLA Prof Worries Gun Owners Are America’s Existential Threat

By Timothy Wheeler, MD When most of us think of America’s enemies today, at least those of us who don’t fret about dehumanizing “the other” by even using that word, we think of ISIS or other Islamic terrorists. It apparently takes a very smart person—an eminent professor trained at the best universities—to show us how far off track our thinking is. Here’s the inside scoop from UCLA professor Jared Diamond: “Already, plenty of Americans are asserting the right to carry guns in previously ...
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DRGO’s Vik Khanna writes in The Daily Caller on Vivek Murthy

[Editor’s note: Vivek Murthy was confirmed on 12/15/14 to the post of surgeon general. DRGO staff will be following developments during his tenure.] Vivek Murthy’s nomination to be U.S. Surgeon General (SG) is back, giving us a health policy version of Groundhog Day, only so much less endearing without Bill Murray and Andie MacDowell. Read more here…
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Massachusetts Doctors Fight Deadly Disease of “Gun Violence”

By Timothy Wheeler, MD The public health world is oblivious to the rapid evolution of firearm policy in the last 20 years. It continues to spin gun ownership as a disease, even as public opinion, legislation, and federal court decisions have with few exceptions only advanced the right to keep and bear arms. Last weekend in Massachusetts a group of gun control-friendly health policy types convened a continuing medical education conference for doctors titled “Caring for Patients at Risk for Gu...
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