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Introduction: our Chronic Narcotics Problem Narcotic addiction has plagued human societies for hundreds of years. [Print, 1880, opium den, London] So as I have written before, after seeing too many dire results of narcotic addiction during my training and early career, I was dismayed how narcotics were pushed as the treatment of choice for chronic pain in the 1990s, with the predictable

After a lull, a new report on conflicts of interest and corruption permeating the Trump administration has appeared, prompting us to again consider how one can challenge health care corruption under a corrupt regime. Background: Health Care Corruption As we wrote in August, 2017, Transparency International (TI) defines corruption as Abuse of entrusted power for private gain In 2006, TI

We recently posted (here and here) about the decline and impending closure of a once major urban safety-net teaching hospital, the Hahnemann University Medical Center.  This was the final common pathway of a downhill progression for an over 170 year old institution. [Hahnemann Hospital in 1925] Since the 1990s, it had been a non-profit university academic medical center, which was then