A Nation of Privileged Cowards?

(from express.co.uk)
Like all of you who read this, I’ve been watching the disturbing news of the Parkland, Florida school attack and trying to process the horror of it all. I’ve listened and tried to be understanding, but now I’m angry. It’s not just the attack itself that’s disturbing, but the dysfunctional reaction coming from so many people and the way so many special interest groups are trying to spin the disaster to promote their own agenda. (more…)
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The AAP: Emotion Displaces Science

(from nautil.us)
In keeping with the American Academy of Pediatrics’ apparent policy to “Never Let a Tragedy Go to Waste”, it only took 24 hours for their statement about the Florida high school shooting to hit my inbox. It only took until the second paragraph of this “statement” before the very president of the AAP used discredited propaganda from Everytown for Gun Safety to attempt to support her position. She there states that “Congress is failing to act”, and states that members of Congress “bear a re...
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What’s Missing from the “Gun Control Debate”? Respecting the Science

(from ibtimes.co.uk)
[Ed: This first appeared February 26 on American Greatness as "Gun Grabbers Deny the Science", slightly expanded here.] Mark Rosenberg, MD, MPP, former assistant surgeon general and founder of the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control at the Centers for Disease Control, claimed in Politico this week that there is still too little useful research into how to reduce “gun violence” in the U.S. This is the same Dr. Rosenberg who in his official capacity in1994 said that firearms s...
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Gun control: The assault on Congress by the medical journals–Part 2

(from naturalgas.org)
[Ed: Part 2 of Dr. Faria’s piece, slightly edited for DRGO, was first published in December in the Macon Telegraph, GOPUSA.com and HaciendaPub.com. It is a sharp analysis of the editorial bias inherent in organized medicine’s premier journals. Part 1 was posted on Tuesday.] In a recent editorial “Death by gun violence — A public health crisis,” twelve editors of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) lobbied, or rather lambasted, Congress for not dealing with gun violence...
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Gun control: The assault on Congress by the medical journals–Part 1

(from huffingtonpost.com)
[Ed: Dr. Faria's piece, slightly edited for DRGO, was first published in November at Macon.com, GOPUSA.com and HaciendaPub.com. It is a sharp analysis of the editorial bias inherent in organized medicine's premier journals. Look for Part 2 on Thursday.] In the wake of the heinous Las Vegas shooting, the medical politicians of the American Medical Association and the public health establishment—which is to the left side of politics on just about any topic even remotely related to medicine...
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Untapped Resources: The Doc Squad

(from intpolicydigest.org)
[Also, see 'Dr. Latebloomer's related piece at GATDaily.] Last summer I went to shoot at a local steel match. I know many of the guys at these club matches, and by pure serendipity, I ended up on what I called the Doc Squad. Five of us on that squad were medical. I found this amusing, considering Organized Medicine’s overt hatred for firearms. (more…)
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Holocaust Remembrance and the Right to Bear Arms

(from timeshighereducation.com)
UNESCO once again dutifully commemorated "Holocaust Remembrance Day" on January 27th. The Nazi crimes of 1933-1945 were horrific enough to invent the term "genocide" and bring it into worldwide consciousness. We recall it as a heinous crime that was the worst of its genre. I say the worst because it was neither the first nor the last time a government would set its sights on exterminating a segment of its population. Throughout history, attempted genocides have not been uncommon. (more&he...
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MAG-120: Hospital Threat Management

(from huffingtonpost.ca)
[Ed: Dr. Edeen gave this talk at the MAG-120 course in Live Oak, Florida, December 11, 2017, slightly edited for DRGO.] Hospitals are not the idealized sanctuary of healing that many of us imagine them to be. According to the National Crime Victimization Survey by the Bureau of Justice Statistics (2011), 10% of workplace violence incidents were directed at health care workers. This translates to 6.5 in 1,000 health care workers being the victims of violent crime at their places of work. Shoot...
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