Medical Sentinel Index
Volume 2 (1997)

A-

AAPS Action Alerts, 12
AAPS limited legal consultation service, 12
AAPS News, 12
AAPS survey, 12, 103
AAPS v. Clinton, 12
Abdominal pain, 21
Abortion, 54-56, 58-59, 61-63, 68-69, 118
Adams, Charles, 75-76
Administrative law, 6, 39-40
Administrative simplification. See also Kassebaum-Kennedy Law, 11, 139-140
Advocacy journalism, 73
Aeschines, 56-60
Afghanistan, 128
AFL-CIO, 8, 73
Africa, 97-98, 106-107, 117-118
Against Timarchus (Aeschines), 56-60
Agriculture, 49-50
AIDS, 51, 61, 79, 96-100, 107
AIDS: The Unnecessary Epidemic (Monteith), 79, 107
Algorithms, 20-21
Altruism, 150
America the Vulnerable (Douglas and Livingstone), 128
American Academy of Actuaries (AAA), 27
American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), 13
American Medical Accreditation Program (AMAP), 11-12
American Medical Association (AMA),3, 6, 8-12, 36, 51, 61-63, 73, 81-82, 86, 118, 121, 140-141, 149-150
American Medical Association Council on Scientific Affairs, 46
American Medical News, 29-31, 61
American Psychiatric Association (APA). See Psychiatry
American Public Health Association (APHA), 84
American Society of Dermatology (ASD), 44
Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA), 124
Andropov, Yuri, 129
Annis, Edward R., 42, 73-74
Anthony, Mark, 9
Anthrax, 94
Apathy, 123
Aristophanes, 59
Aristotle, 15, 54-55 (on abortion), 57-60 (on pederasty), 140 (on individualism)
Arnett, Jerome C., Jr., 39-40, 115-116, 149-150
Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS), 4-6, 9-12, 34, 36, 38, 40, 41-42, 44, 61-63, 68-69, 80, 103, 118, 121-122, 149-150
Atlas Shrugged (Rand), 132-133
Attorneys, 143-144
Australia, 7
AZT. See AIDS

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Babka, Rudolf, 94
Bacteriological warfare, 94-95, 128-129
Barchet, Stephen, 120
Barr, Bob, 84
Beat the Devil (Mackie), 115-116, 118
Bergalis, Kimberly, 98-99
Beria, Lavrenti, 129
Bill of Rights. See Constitutional Amendments
Blaylock, Russell L., 45, 93-96, 126-131
Blevins, Sue A., 142
Blue Cross/Blue Shield. See Managed Care, 3
Boaz, David, 121
Bosnia, 135
Bounty system, 11
Boy Clinton (Tyrrell), 44
Brady, Sarah, 85
Breast cancer. See Carcinogenesis.
Bristow, Lonnie, 61
Bubonic plague, 94
Budget deal, 120
Bukobsky, Bladimir, 50
Bureaucracy, 137-138
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (BATF) 124
Bush, George Herbert Walker,123-124, 141

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Caine, Curtis W., 32-33, 70-72, 108-109, 144-146
California (State of), 6, 34, 69-70, 118, 120, 121
California Physician, 121
Camardese, Nino M., 79
Canadian elections, 124-125
Canadian health care regulations, 7, 15-18, 24-25
Canadian Stroke Consortium, 147
Capitation, 4, 92, 112-114
Capos, 134-135
Carcinogenesis, also cancer, 51, 93
Carlen, Robert, 4-5, 18, 41
Carotid endarterectomy, 147
Castro, Fidel, 130
Catastrophic insurance. See Medical Insurance, Medical Savings Accounts (MSAs)
CATO Institute, 8, 35, 44
Celsus, Aulus Cornelius, 149
Censorship, 52, 150
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). See also Public Health, 47, 50-53, 81-82, 107
Certification, also credentialing, 1, 12
Charity, 11, 30
Chemical warfare, 94-95, 128-129
Chest pain, 20-21
Chief Executive Officers (CEOs). See Managed Care
Children, 2-3, 122, 135
China, 125, 129-130
Chinese medicine, 133
Cholesterol, 78
Christofell, Katherine, 85
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), 21
Cicero, Marcus Tullius, 54, 77
Cihak, Robert, 1-2, 121
Civil Defense Perspectives, 8
Civil War, 37, 66
Clean Air Act, 124
Clements, Melissa K., 44
Clinton, Hillary Rodham, 7, 62, 144
Clinton, William Jefferson, 19, 62, 120, 123, 138, 143-144
Coastal Physicians Group. See Corporations
Code Blue (Annis), 42, 74
Collectivism. See also Socialism, 50
Colorado (State of), 56
Committees. See Government
Communist Manifesto (Marx), 123
Communist Use of American POWs, 93-96, 126-131
Concept attrition, 134
Congressional Budget Office (CBO), 120
Congo (Belgian), 135
Consensus, 132-135, 147
Consolazio, Paul, 104-105
Constitutional Amendments. See also U.S. Constitution, 3, 32-33, 65, 66, 109, 145
Constitutional Republic, 32-33, 71, 109, 123, 133
Copeland, Lois, 12, 138-139
Coronary artery disease, 78
Corporate socialized medicine, also corporatism, industrialized medicine, socialized medicine, 6, 7, 16-18, 45, 61, 80, 138-139, 149-150
Corporations, health care, 6, 78, 112-113
Cost containment. See Rationing
Crematorium, 93, 95-96
Crime, also punishment, 50, 149
Criminalization of medicine, 10-12, 37-38, 126-131
Cuba, 44, 130
Cynicism, 122
Czechoslovakia, 93, 95-96, 126-129

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The Danger of Socialized Medicine (Hornberger and Ebeling), 9
Darwin, Charles, 49, 132
Declaration of Independence, 32-33, 64, 71, 79, 108-109
Defensive medicine, 37-38
"Deliberate ignorance," 10
Democratic Party, 123
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), 8, 140
Descartes, René, 134
Dewey, John, 1, 14-15
Diagnosis, 133-134
Dickey, Jay, 86
DiLorenzo, Thomas J., 64-67
Dioscorides, Pedacious, 149
Disinformation, 135
Doctors for Integrity in Policy Research (DIPR) 47, 81-84
Dole, Bob, 123
Donahoo, Charles, 141
Dorman, Thomas, 132-135, 149
Dorodny, Victor S., 69-70
Douglas, Joseph D., 94-96, 126-128, 130
"Drive-through mastectomies," 138
Duesberg, Peter, 79, 98-100, 107-108, 117-118
Durant, Will, 141
Dwyer, John J., 45, 80, 122
Dzerzhinsky, Felix, 134-135

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East Germany, 127-129
Ebeling, Richard M., 9
Ebola virus, 128-129
Economics, 65-67
Edelstein, Ludwig, 54
Education, 10-12 (AAPS), 14-15 (American), 30, 78 (sex), 99 (AIDS), 112-113 (medical)
Einstein, Albert, 47
Eisenhower, Dwight, 73
Election results, 9
Electronic data, 7, 11
Electroshock therapy, 93
Employment Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA), 78
England. See Great Britain
Environment, 135
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), 116,118, 124, 140
Epidemics, 51-53, 81-86 (violence), 97-100, 106-108 (AIDS)
Essex, Myron, 97, 106
Ethics. See Medical Ethics
Europe, 24-25, 82
Euthanasia (assisted suicide), 4-5, 7, 41-42, 68-69
Evans, M. Stanton, 42
Evans v. Romer, 56-58
Evergreen Freedom Foundation, 121
Evolution. See Darwin, Charles

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Fackler, Martin, 46
False Claims Act, 37-38
Faria, Miguel A., Jr., 5, 14-15, 18, 41, 46-53, 81-89,123-125, 149-150
Federal Employee Health Benefit Program (FEHBP),120
Federal Register, 26
Federal Reserve System, 149
Fee-for-service. See also Free Market, 137-138
Field, Stephen, 67
Food and Drug Administration (FDA), 18, 24-25, 39-40, 44, 124
Forbes, 12
For Good and Evil (Adams), 75-76
Foundations, 112, 121, 150
Founding Fathers, 3, 62-67
Fraud and abuse, 45
Freedom, 12, 64-67, 118, 150
Free Market. See also Medical Savings Accounts,12, 65-67, 137-138
French Revolution, 63
Fumento, Michael, 79, 98-100, 106-107, 117-118

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Galen, 54
Galileo : Decisive Innovator (Sharratt), 9
General welfare, 144-146
Georgia (State of), 14, 51
Glenn, Gary, 35
God, 32, 62-63, 68, 94, 135, 146
Goebbels, Joseph 134
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 25
"Golden Age of Medicine," 138
Golitsyn, Anatoliy, 126, 135
Goltry, Vernon L., 3-4, 35
Goodman, John C., 120
Goodman, William E., 7, 15-18
Gorbachev, Mikhail, 50
Gore, Albert, 120
Government, 38, 41-42, 49-53, 64-67, 73-76, 81-86, 115-116, 138-141, 144-146
Gramsci, Antonio, 93, 126
Graeco-Roman medicine and ethics, 1, 54-60, 149
Great Britain, 1, 124, 145
Green, Jacob, 136
GRU. See Soviet Military Intelligence
Gulags, 45, 50, 96, 122, 149
Gulf War Syndrome, 128
Gun control in the medical literature, 2-3, 7, 50-53, 81-86, 149-150
Gun safety, 2-3
Guthrie, Scott O., 143-144

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Hamilton, Alexander, 71, 75, 145
Handgun Control, Inc., 85
Handgun Epidemic Lowering Plan (HELP), 84
Harvard AIDS Institute, 106
Harvard School of Public Health, 142
Hazardous To Your Health (Higgs), 39-40
Health care expenditures, 22
Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA), 22
Health Care Task Force, 12, 43
Health Maintenance Organization (HMO). See Managed Care
Health Security Act of 1993, 7, 12, 45, 110, 139
Hedonism, 62
Hegel, Georg F., 124-125
Henry, Patrick, 64
Herd control, 134
Heritage Foundation, 27, 35, 121, 139
Higgs, Robert, 24-25, 39-40
Hippocrates of Cos, 55, 110, 149
Hippocratic ethic, 103, 138
Hippocratic Oath, 1, 4, 12, 35, 53-56, 58-60
Hirsch, Walter, 94
A History of the Life Sciences (Magner), 44
History of medicine, 54-60
Hitler, Adolf, 134, 139
HIV. See AIDS
HIV-Watch, 99
Hoffman, Heinz, 127
Holland, 42
Holland, Josiah G., 48
Holocaust, 93-94
Homosexuality, 54, 56-60, 106
Hornberger, Jacob G., 9
Hospitals, 16-17, 43, 78, 94, 112-114
Human Events, 42
Human guinea pigs. See Medical Experiments
Humanism, 1, 62-63
Humanitarianism. See also Charity, 1
Huntoon, Lawrence R., 29-31, 72, 112-114, 148

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Idaho (State of), 35, 43
Incremental reforms, health, 138-139
Injury Prevention Network Newsletter, 83-84
Integrated delivery systems. See also Managed Care, 113-114
Internal Revenue Service (IRS), 43, 75-76
Intolerance, 150
Inventing the AIDS Virus (Duesberg), 79, 98, 107
Italy, 67

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Jackson, Andrew, 9, 66, 86
Jackson Hole Group, 112
Jaggard, Robert, 80
James, William, 14-15
Japan, 24-25, 130
Jefferson, Thomas, 19, 33, 64, 71, 109, 146
Jenner, Edward, 45
Johnson, Kirk, 11
Johnson, Lyndon, 61, 122
Johnson, Mark, 44
Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), 47, 52, 61, 81-82
Journal of the Medical Association of Georgia (JMAG), 51-52, 149-150
Juvenal, 55

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The Kaiser Family Foundation,142, 150
Kaiser Permanente HMO. See also Managed Care; Corporations, 113
Kasch, John A., 44
Kassebaum-Kennedy Bill (Law; Health Security and Portability Act of 1996), 6-7, 10-12, 22, 26-28, 34, 45, 80, 123, 139
Kassirer, Jerome, 21, 83
Kates, Don B., 53, 84
Kellermann, Arthur, 52-53, 85
Kennedy, Edward, 7, 28, 30
Kentucky Resolution, 64
Kessler, David, 25, 39, 44
Kevorkian, Jack, 4-5
KGB, 94, 96, 126, 128-129, 135
Khrushchev, Nikita, 127, 129
King-Anderson Bill. See also Medicare, 73-74
Kleck, Gary, 53
"Knowingly and willfully," 6, 10-12
Koch, Robert, 46, 81
Koch's Postulates. See also Scientific Method, 46, 81
Kopel, David, 53
Korean War, 93-96 (experience with POWs), 135
Kreider, Rodney N., 2-3
Krieger, Gary K., 29
Krizek, George, 6, 10
Krueger, Philip, 43
Kulaks, 50
Kuschev, Aleksandr, 126

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Lamarck, Jean Baptiste, 49-50
Lamarckian theory of inheritance, 49
Language, 132
Lanzalotti, John A., 90-92
Laos, 129
Legal care, 143-144
Lehrman, Nathaniel S., 2, 77
Lenin, Vladimir, I., 49, 135
The Libertarian Reader (Boaz), 121
Libertarians, 5, 18, 41-42, 119, 125
Liberty. See also Freedom, 118
Lifton, Robert J., 5, 50, 93-94
Lincoln, Abraham, 33, 66
Livingstone, N.C., 128
Loftman, Bert A., 32, 40, 75-76, 119
Lott, John R., 7
Lott, Trent, 120, 125
Lysenko, Trofim D., 49-50

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Machiavelli, Nicolo, 134
Mackie, Richard, 115-116, 118
Madison, James, 64, 109, 145
Magaziner, Ira, 7, 144
Magner, Lois N., 44
Maimonides, 133
Managed care, 3-4, 11, 28-31 (inefficiency), 35, 41-42, 46, 69-70 (managing without caring), 78- 79, 87-89 (with Medicare), 90-91, 110, 112-114 (capitation), 121 (Medicaid), 122 (CEOs), 137-140
Mandatory testing. See AIDS
Mao-Tse-Tung, 130
Markov, Georgi, 128
Marshall, John, 65
Marxism. See Socialism
Marx, Karl, 123
Matthews, Merrill, Jr., 44, 87-89, 119
McCann, Michael L., 3-4
Media, 81-82, 84, 101-103
Medicaid, 6, 92, 121, 145
Medical education. See Education
Medical ethics, 12, 61-63, 68-69, 118, 149-150
Medical experiments, on American POWs, 93-96,126-131, 134-135
Medical devices, 24-25, 39-40
Medical history, 1, 44, 46-60, 149
Medical insurance, 80, 91-92
Medical journalism, 47, 51-53
"Medically unnecessary," 6, 139
Medical organizations, national. See also AAPS, AMA, APHA, ASD, 3, 9, 44
Medical Savings Accounts (MSA), 4, 9, 12, 17-18, 26-28, 34-35, 40-41, 45, 80, 88-89, 90-92, 120, 142
Medical Sentinel, 1-2, 4-5, 12, 36, 41, 52-53, 77, 106, 118, 146
Medical student, letter to, 36
Medical Warrior (Faria), 149-150
Medicare, 6, 17, 28, 37-38, 42, 61, 73-74, 80, 87-89, 92, 120, 122-123, 142, 145
Medicine, medical profession, 1, 7, 10-12, 16-18, 38, 45, 73-74, 80, 110-111, 118, 121, 137-139, 141,149-150
Memorial Day poem, 104-105
Mendel, Gregor, 49
Mengele, Joseph 50, 93
Mensch, Arthur H., 41
Merkle George W., 119
Michigan (State of), 4-5
Michurin, I.V., 49
Milton, John, 79
Missing In Action (MIA). See Prisoners of War (POW)
Moffit, Robert E., 26-28
Mongols, 94
Monopoly, 12
Monteith, Stanley K., 97-100, 106-107, 117-118
Morality. See also Medical Ethics, 14-15, 61-63, 68-69, 77, 118
Moses, 63, 68
Mussolini, Benito, 67
Mustard, David B., 7
The Myth of Heterosexual AIDS (Fumento), 79

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Nahrwold, Michael L., 2
National Center for Injury Control and Prevention (NCIPC). See CDC
National Center for Policy Analysis (NCPA), 7-8, 35, 44
National Health Service. See Great Britain
National Review, 44
National Rifle Association (NRA), 3, 43
Natural law, 77, 133
Natural rights, 118
The Nazi Doctors (Lifton), 5, 93-94
Nazi Germany, 50, 53, 61-63, 93-94, 96, 134, 139
Neurology, 147
The New American, 120
New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), 47, 55, 83
"The New Intolerance," 150
New Lies for Old (Golitsyn), 126, 135
"The New Orthodoxy," 150
New World Order, 123, 134
Newspeak, 132, 134
Newton, Sir Isaac, 133
1984 (Orwell), 132, 134
Nirschl, Robert P., 137-138
Nixon, Richard Milhous, 115
Nock, Albert Jay, 121
Nomenklatura, 49
Nuremberg Medical Trials, 93-94
Nurses, 78, 83

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Objectivism, 132
"48-hour obstetrical deliveries,"138
Obstetrics, 7, 138
O'Carroll, Patrick, 81
Occupational Safety Hazard Administration (OSHA),124, 140, 149
Operant conditioning, 134
Orient, Jane M., 5, 10, 18-23, 38, 41, 46, 68-69, 77, 148
Orwell, George, 132, 134
Our Enemy the State (Nock), 121
Outcome-based education (OBE), 14-15, 132
Outcomes research, 19-23, 46
Ovid, 55
Oxford Health Plans. See Corporations; Managed Care, 78, 113

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Paranoia, 135
Partner tracing. See AIDS
Pasteur, Louis, 46
Patient Power (Goodman and Musgrave), 12, 92
Patient confidentiality, privacy, 7, 11-12
Patient-physician relationship, 7, 11-12, 45, 122, 138
Patient protection, 12
Patient's Handbook, 12
Pavlov, Ivan, 15, 134
Payne, Franklin E., 61-63, 68-69
Payne, Thomas, 64-65
Peace, 135
Pederasty, 56-60
Pediatricians. See also American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), 3, 83
Peer review, 135, 149
Peer Standards Review Organization (PSRO), 21
Pendleton, Edmund, 145
Perestroika, 135
The Perestroika Deception (Golitsyn), 126
Peters, C.J., 81
Pharmaceuticals, regulation of, 39-40
Physician health services. See also Managed Care, 113
Phytotoxin (Ricin), 128
Plato, 54-55 (abortion), 58-60 (pederasty), 133 (philosopher kings), 140 (collective good), 141
Plehn, Robert V., 2
Polybius, 58-60
Porter, R. Wayne, 77
Pozgai, John, 141
Practice guidelines, 19-23, 147
Pragmatism, 123, 150
Predictions, 135
Principia (Newton), 133
Printz, Don W., 10-12
Prioreschi, Plinio, 1, 54-60
Prisoners of war (POW), 93-96, 126-131
Private contracting, 12
Privatization, 15-18, 45
Projecto para la Reconstrucción Completa de Cuba (Mijares), 44
Propaganda, 134
Prothrow-Stith, Deborah, 81
Psychiatry, 50, 94, 129
Psychotoxins, 129
Public Citizen, 40
Public Health. See also CDC, 51-53, 81-86 (gun research), 97-99 (AIDS), 106-108 (infectious disease), 117-118,
121 Medicaid), 139 (Kassebaum-Kennedy law)
Pythagoras, 1, 54-55, 58-59

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Quong, General Major, 127

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Radiation, 95
Rand, Ayn, 63, 132-133
Rand study, 19-20, 35
Rationing in health care. See also Managed Care, 22, 80, 87, 137-138
Reagan, Ronald, 141
"Reckless disregard," 38
Red guards, 130
Regulations, 8, 24-25, 66-67, 115-116, 140-141
Rehabilitation, 50
Reimbursement, 87
Religion, 15, 62-63, 68-69, 77
Remnant, 121-122
Reno, Janet, 122
Republic. See Constitutional Republic
Republican Party (GOP), 119, 123-125
Research and development, 24-25, 39-40
Residency training. See also Education, 112-113
Resource-Based Relative Value Scale (RBRVS), 28, 149
Retrovirus. See AIDS
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, 12, 112, 150
Roe v. Wade, 54-56, 58
Rogers, Frank A., 120
Rome, 123, 149
Rosenberg, Mark, 81, 85
Ross, John, 121
Rubenstein, Ed, 120
Rutgard, Jeffrey J., 6, 45

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Schaeffer, Francis, 61
Schiller, Mark, 34
Schlafly, Andrew L., 37-38
Schwartz, Harry, 120
Scientific method, 19-23 (practice guidelines and outcomes research), 46-47 (nature of science), 49-53 (politicized), 133, 147 (endarterectomy study)
Scribonius Largus, 1, 55, 149
Sedition Act, 64
Sejna, Jan, 93-95, 126-130
Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, 38, 55
Serkes, Kathryn A., 101-103
Sex education. See Education
Sexually-transmitted disease (STD), 78
Sharratt, Michael, 9
Siberia, 49-50
Single overriding communications objective (SOCO), 102-103
Skinner, B.F., 15, 134
Smith, Adam, 28
Socialism, 49-51, 67-68, 93-96, 139, 149-150
Socialized medicine. See Corporate Socialized Medicine
Soley, Robert, 120
Soranus, 55
Soviet defector, 128
Soviet military intelligence (GRU), 127-128
Soviet Union, 49-50, 53, 93-96, 126-131
Sowell, Thomas, 150
Special Warfare, 97
Stalin, Joseph, 45, 49-50, 95
State rights, 32-33, 145-146
Stavinoha, Joseph, 129
Stewart v. Sullivan, 12
Stroke, 147
Sullivan, Brian, 97
Sun Tsu, 134
Survival of the fittest. See Darwin, Charles
Suter, Edgar, 47, 52-53
Sutton's Law (Orient and Wright), 148
Switzerland, 8, 43
Syphilis, 99

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Tan, David K., 110-111
Tanner, Michael, 44
Taxes, 40, 75-76, 119, 139
T-cells. See AIDS
Third party payers, 3-4
Thomas Aquinas, St., 15
Thomas, Bill, 120, 139
Thomas, Clarence, 150
Thoreau, Henry David, 9, 44, 79, 121
Thought control, 132-135
Tidwell, Thomas J., 7
Timarchus, 56-60
Todd, James S., 61
Tolstoy, Leo, 38
Totalitarianism. See also Tyranny, 62
Treaties, 70-72
Truth, 14-15, 62-63, 68, 82
Tuskegee experiments, 61
Tyranny, 32-33, 64-67, 71, 109

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Unintended Consequences (Ross), 121
United Nations (UN), 134-135
United States, 108-109, 124-125
U.S. Constitution, 32-33, 64-67, 70-72, 108-109
U.S. Court of Appeals rulings, 4, 38
U.S. Healthcare. See Managed Care, 78
U.S. Supreme Court rulings, 1, 54-60, 146

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Vanishing Republic (Anthony), 9
Vascular surgeons, 147
Vertical integration. See Managed Care
Veterinary ethics, 149-150
Vietnam, 126-131
Viruses. See AIDS; Public Health

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The Wall Street Journal, 8, 10
Washington DC, 10, 109
Washington, George, 64
Washington (State of), 121
Washington Times, 43
Waters, William C., IV, 81, 83
Welfare. See General Welfare
Wheeler, Timothy, 83
White, William G., 41-42
Whiteside, Ron, 43
Whole language. See Outcome-Based Education
Wine, 78
Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 132
Worker's compensation, 91
World Psychiatric Association (WPA). See Psychiatry
World War II, 3, 122
Wright, Linda J., 148

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Yakovlev, Alexandr, 126
Yellow rain, 128
Your Doctor Is Not In (Orient), 92