Medical Sentinel Index
Volume 6 (2001)

A-

AIDS, 34, 48, 79 (in Black Americans), 84
Alar scare, 48-49
Alcohol abuse, 11, 21
Alexander, Leo, 64, 116-117
Alibek, Ken (Biohazard), 120-121, 131
Allergic sensitization, 86
American Academy of Pediatrics (APA), 30-31, 115-117
American Medical Association (AMA), 11, 15
(Council on Scientific Affairs), 30, 33, 47, 65, 73
77, 81, 109-110 (secret pact with HCFA), 112,
115-117 (gun control)
American Psychiatric Association (APA), 8, 13,
115-117
American Public Health Association (APHA), 46-49
Anthrax, 119, 123-128, 135-136
Antibodies, 95-99, 111
Aquinas, Thomas, 63, 94
Aristotle, 30, 63
Arnett, Jerome C., Jr., 63-65
Assault weapons, 15, 23
Association of American Physicians and Surgeons
(AAPS), 1 (immunizations), 2 (privacy),
10 (limited legal consultation service),
12 (policy), 33, 66, 75, 81, 104
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD),
8, 31, 95-99, 108
Aubrey, Michael E., 26-28, 57-60, 81
Autism, 82, 94, 95-99 (autism spectrum disorder)
104
Autoimmunity, 84-85
Axonal injury, 83

-B-

Bacillus anthracis. See Anthrax.
Bacteriological warfare. See Anthrax
Ballistics, 15
Bancroft prize, 44
Bellesiles, Michael, 44, 112
Benefits of firearms. See Guns and Gun Control
Bennett, James T., 46-49
The Best Defense (Waters), 15
Betancourt, Ernesto F., 121-122
Bill of Rights, 16
bin Laden, Osama, 115
Biological warfare, 123-129, 136
Bioterrorism, 7, 111, 118-129, 134, 136
Biscet, Oscar Elias, 3
Blaylock, Russell L., 134-136
Blázquez, Agustín, 118-120
Borelli, Nelson, 38, 141-142
Botulinum toxin, 123
Boundary violations, 15, 116
Boy Scouts of America, 109-110
Brady law, 23
Brain edema, 84
Brain function, 87
Brase, Twila, 75
Breast cancer, 49
British medical system, 8, 113-114
Browne, Sir Thomas, 68
Bureaucracy, 46-49, 100-103
Bush, George W., 10, 120
Buttram, Harold E., 82-89, 94

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Caine, Curtis W., 32-33, 69-70, 105, 137-139
California (state of), 82-83
Canadian health care system, 26-28, 57-60, 113-114
Canada, 43 (firearm registry), 139
Capitalism, 101
Carcinogens, 48-49
Castro, Fidel, 3 (doctor diplomacy), 118, 120-122
Castro, Raúl, 118-119, 121, 136
CAT scan, 28, 114. See also X-rays
Caudle, Lester C. III, 123-125
Cell phone tracking, 40
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC),
11-14, 79, 82, 95, 101, 115, 129
Centerwall, Brandon, 14
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), 130-131
Cerebral hemorrhage, 84-85
Cereijo, Manuel, 118-120
Certification, 61 (risk management)
Charity, 59
Chemical warfare, 111, 119, 134-136 (nutrients)
Child abuse, 31
Children (and guns), 16-17
China, 115, 118, 123, 129
Chlordiazepoxide (librium) 131
Chlorofluorocarbons (CFS), 47
Chlorpromazine (thorazine), 131
Christman, Kenneth D., 71
Cihak, Robert J., 10, 45, 81, 113-114
Civil defense, 111
Clinton administration. See Health Care Reform
Cocaine (crack), 21
Code Blue: Reviving Canada's Health Care System
(Gratzer), 35
Communist Manifesto (Marx), 47
Compassion in dying (Oregon), 43
Concealed carry permits (for firearms), 12-13
Congenital rubella syndrome, 98-99
Constitutional rights, 1, 10, 14-18, 137-139
Corlin, Richard, 115-117
Court rulings, 10, 16, 29, 102-103, 110-111
CPT code books, 73, 109, 111
Crime, 9 (in Great Britain and Japan)
Crimes (of passion), 13, 80. See also Violence
Cuba, 3, 47, 118-122
Cyanide, 124
Cyberspace. See Internet
Czechoslovakia, 131-132

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Database for medical errors, 41
Daycare, 41, 48
Dengue fever, 3
Delinquency, 17
Democrats, 101-102. See also Health Care Reform
Depression, 13 (clinical)
de Tocqueville, Alexis, 105
DiLorenzo, Thomas, 46-49
Disciplinary actions, 103-104
Disclosure policy, 24
Doctors Against Handgun Injury, 115-117
Doctors for Disaster Preparedness (DDP), 111
Douglass, Joseph D., 130-133, 136
DPT vaccine, 84-85
Drugs (and pharmaceuticals), 11, 21-22, 42, 103-
104, 112, 127 (antibiotics), 130-133
Dulles, Alan, 130-131

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Ebola, 134
EEG, 83, 87
E-mail monitoring, 40
Encephalitis, 83-89, 118, 121-122
English language regulations, 10
Entitlements, 26-28, 100-102
Environmentalism, 78 (regulatory takings)
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), 46-49
Epidemics, 20, 82, 95-99
Euthanasia, 5 (Dutch Parliament approves),
6 (in Belgium), 43 (cruises)

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Fackler, Martin, 15
Faria, Miguel A., Jr., 4, 11-18, 46-49, 64, 66-67,
103-104, 115-117
Fatal Freedom: The Ethics and Politics of Suicide
(Szasz), 141-142
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), 13, 17
Fee-for-service, 101
Fiedor, Doug, 29, 102-103
Firearms, 16 (constitutional issues). See also Guns
Flanagan, Patrick, 3-4
Food and Drug Administration (FDA), 7, 45, 123-124
Forbes, 120 (magazine)
Foster, Vincent, 107-108
Fox, James, 17
Friedlander, Arthur M., 126-128
Friedman, Milton, 81
From Pathology to Politics: Public Health in
America (Bennett and DiLorenzo), 46-49

-G-

Geiger counters, 111
Genetically engineered, 41 (food products), 118
(tropical diseases)
Government (intervention in medicine), 26-27
102-103, 111-112
Government waste, 7 (cost of), 79-80 (misman-
agement)
Gratzer, David, 35
Gun Control Act of 1934, 23
Gun Control Act of 1968, 14, 23
Gun laws, 17, 21-23
Gun politics, 30, 44, 110, 112
Guns, 1 (bullets as pathogens), 11-13 (in the
home), 12-13 (benefits of), 13 (in suicide), 42
(death rate), 61-62, 73-74, 110-112, 115-116 (AMA)
Gun Safety, 17-18, 30, 61-62
Gun violence, 80. See also Australia, Great Britain,
and Public Health and Gun Control

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Hamilton, Alexander, 103
Hayek, F.A., 58
Health and Human Services (HHS), 41, 50, 66, 75
Health care, 126-28 (as a right), 57-60, 113-114
(access to)
Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA), 38
50, 111
Health care provider Medicaid tax, 52-53
Health care reform, 50-55, 90-94, 101-102, 113-114
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability
Act (HIPAA), 45, 66, 75
Health Maintenance Organization (HMO), 30, 101,
114
Heartland Institute, 36, 106, 140
Heart surgery, 8
Hemorrhagic diathesis, 85
Henry, Patrick, 31, 141
Hepatitis B, 84, 96, 99
Hippocrates, 38, 64-65, 77, 104, 116-117
Hollywood (and violence), 14, 16-18
Homicide, 11-13, 20-24
Homosexuality, 34, 109-110
Horace, 29
Horn, Joe, 61-62
Horowitz, David, 34
Huntoon, Lawrence R., 7
Hurwitz, William, 104
Hussein, Saddam, 121-122

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Ideas on Liberty, 28, 62
Illinois State Medical Society (ISMS), 33
Imipramine (tofranil) 131
Immune system, 82, 94-99, 104, 134-136
Immunization, 127-128 (active). See also Vaccines
Inhalers, 48
Insurance, 90-91 (employee-based)
Internet, 65-66, 75
IQ, 48
Iran, 118, 120
Iraq, 115, 118, 123-124. See also Bioterrorism and
Biological Warfare

-J-

Jefferson, Thomas, 16, 57, 60
Journal of the American Medical Association
(JAMA), 11-12, 15
Journal of the Medical Association of Georgia
(JMAG), 11, 16
Junk science, 41 (awards for), 46-49
Juvenile delinquency, 16-18

-K-

Kant, Immanuel, 63
Kassebaum-Kennedy law, 101. See also HIPAA
Kates, Don B., 11, 14-16
Kellermann, Arthur, 11-13
Kerner report, 48
Kevorkian method, 104
KGB, 123, 130
Khrushchev, Nikita, 131-133
Kleck, Gary, 12-13
Kopel, David, 15-16, 30

-L-

Lang-Radosh, Kathy, L., 95-99, 104
Latent period, 85-86
Law of supply and demand, 57-58
Lawsuits, 8, 75 (against HHS/medical privacy)
Lewis, Richard Jr., 109
Liberation theology, 113
Licensure, 81
Lithium, 131
Locke, John, 16
Lott, John R., 13, 16, 23
LSD, 130
Lyme disease, 78 (vaccine)
Lymphocytosis (perivascular), 84

-M-

Macbeth (Shakespeare), 108
Machismo, 22-23
Madison, James, 102-103
Madueme, Hans, 67-68
Manuscript information for authors, 24
Market-oriented health care, 47
Marshall, John, 16
Marx, Karl, 47
Mass shootings, 15-16
Matthews, Merrill, 113-114
McCammon, Kyle S., 50-55, 90-94
McClain, David J., 129, 136
Measles, mumps, rubella (MMR) vaccine, 82,
95-99, 104
Media, 15 (news)
Medical ethics, 63-65 (utilitarian), 112
Medical diagnosis, 84-87
Medical financing, 81
Medical liability, 61-62 (rising in England), 80
(for pushing gun control)
Medical privacy (regulations), 39-40, 66-67
Medical Savings Accounts (MSA), 9, 40, 91-92,
101-102
Medical Sentinel, 3-4, 11-13, 48-49, 81, 94
Medicaid, 10, 50-55, 78, 81, 90-94, 101-102
Medicare, 10, 38, 45, 81, 100-102
Medicolegal, 83-84, 103-104
Medline, 82
Medscape, 110
Meier, Conrad F., 100-101
Mendoza, Dessy, 3
Meningitis, 126 (anthrax)
Mercola, Joseph M., 1
Meyer, Delbert H., 34
Mind control. See Psychoactive drugs
Minerals, 134-136 (in nutrition)
Montes, Ana Belen, 121
Morality, 17-18, 27-28
Morphine, 103-104
Myelin basic protein (MBP), 98

-N-

Narcotic analgesics, 103-104
National Center for Injury Prevention and Control
(NCIPC), 14, 82
National Institute of Health (NIH), 41
National police survey, 9
National Rifle Association (NRA), 17 (Eddie Eagle
program)
National Socialism (Nazis), 3, 63-64, 116-117, 141
The Nazi War on Tobacco and Cancer (Proctor), 3
Neomorts (Orient and Wright), 4, 10, 60
New Deal, 22
New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), 11-15
NewsMax.com, 19, 56
New Zealand, 45
North Korea, 115, 123
Norway, 79 (socialized medicine in)
Nurses, 8 (training to do heart surgery in England)
Nutrition, 134-136

-O-

Ochaner, Alton, 3-4
Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (1990 and
1993), 53
Ontario Medical Association, 59
Open data (public review policy), 12, 24, 49
Orient, Jane M., 2, 60, 64, 73, 82, 94, 104, 107-108,
111
Orlandella, A.W., 109
Ozone layer, 47

-P-

Pain, 103-104
Pascal, Blaise, 94
Parker, Richard G., 101-102
Patients' Bill of Rights, 76
P.C., M.D.: How Political Correctness is Corrupting
Medicine (Satel), 72
Peoria County Medical Society (PCMS), 33
Persian Gulf War, 123-124, 127
Pfizer, 78 (and Medicaid)
Phillips, Howard, 137-139
Physician-assisted executions, 6
Physician-assisted suicide, 141
Physicians, 26-28 (in Canadian politics), 58-60,
77 (as agents of the State)
Physician's civil rights, 1 (income), 29, 81
Plague, 124-125
Plastic surgery, 71
Plato, 30, 63
Politicians, 30, 101-104, 115-117
Politics, 69-70, 101-102, 105, 115-117
The Politics of Bad Faith (Horowitz), 34
Potassium Iodide, 111
Poverty, 21-22, 59
Pregnancy, 95-99, 104
Prisoners of war (POWs), 131-132
Private property, 44 (in Russia)
Proctor, Robert, 3
Prohibition, 21
Prosecutions, 102-104
Prozac, 100
Psychoactive drugs, 130-133, 136
Public health, 3-4, 11-18 (and gun control), 46-49
(politicalization of)
Public schools, 31

-Q-

Qaddafi, Muammar, 120

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Rand, Ayn, 27, 59
Ranheim, Philip, 38}
Rationing medical care, 113-114 . See also Socialized
Medicine
Retirement (early), 38, 100-101
Reifsnyder, David N., 1-2
Relative risk, 48-49, 77
Regulations, 10, 78 (takings)
Religion, 32, 69-70, 105
Republicans, 101-102. See also Health Care Reform
Retinal hemorrhages, 83
Ritalin, 8, 31, 37
The Road to Serfdom (Hayek), 29
Roberts, Paul Craig, 31, 77
Rubella (vaccine), 82, 95-99, 104. See also MMR
Ruddy, Christopher, 107-108
Rule of law, 29, 58

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Satel, Sally, 72
Scandlen, Greg, 35
Schiller, Mark, 72
Scholarship (faulty), 14
School violence, 9, 16-18
Scobbo, Ronald R., 39
Scurvy, 85
Seattle (Washington state), 14, 23
Sejna, Jan, 131-133
Serkes, Kathryn A., 38-39, 66, 75, 111
Shaken Baby Syndrome (SBS), 82-89, 94
Shaw, George Bernard, 32-33
Single-payer system, 113-114
Skeletal fractures, 86-87
Sloan, John H., 14
Smallpox, 123, 129, 136
Socialism, 32, 47, 59-60
Socialized medicine, 26-28, 57-60, 79, 113-114
Soviets, 120, 123, 130-133
State Childrens Health Insurance Program (SCHIP),
53-54
Statistics (U.S.), 16-17, 20-23
Stolinsky, David, 20-24, 37
Story, Joseph, 16
The Strange Death of Vincent Foster (Ruddy),
107-108
Subdural hematomas, 82-83
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS), 82, 94
Suicide, 11-13, 20-24, 110, 141-142
Supreme Court, 29
Suprynowicz, Vin, 1, 31, 37
Surveys, 6, 12, 39, 48-49
Suter, Edgar, 11-13
Sutton's Law (Orient and Wright), 35
Switzerland, 15 (and gun control)
Szasz, Thomas, 141-142

-T-

Tavistock principles (of medical ethics), 63-65
Taxes, 7, 52-53, 138-139
Technology, 113-114
Television (violence on), 14-15, 22
TennCare, 76
Terrorism, 17, 111, 115, 124-125
Thimerosal (mercury), 87
Third world nations, 123-125
Tidwell, Jack, 3, 73
Tobacco, 3, 7
Tropical medicine, 121-122

-U-

Universal health care. See Socialized Medicine
U.S. Constitution, 10, 69-70, 102-103, 105, 137-139
Utah Medical Association, 104

-V-

Vaccines, 46, 104, 108, 127-129
Vaccine safety, 78, 82-89, 94-99 (adverse outcomes)
Vancouver (Canada), 14-15, 23
Vandals at the Gates of Medicine (Faria), 15, 55
Vasculopathy, 84
Viagra, 100
Vidas, Michael C., 33
Violence, 14-18, 20-24, 80
Viruses, 83-87, 94-99, 118-125, 129, 136
Vitamins, 134-136

-W-

Waiting lists (in Ireland), 42
Waiting periods, 23
Waste, fraud and abuse, 80
Webster, Robert, 73
Weitzel, Robert, 103-104
Welfare, 47, 91-93
Westbrock, David, 65-66
Western Journal of Medicine (WJM), 110
West Nile virus, 118, 121-122
Wheeler, Timothy, 30, 116
Women (and guns), 13-14
Worker's compensation, 71
World freedom index, 77
World Trade Center, 115-121

-X-

X-rays, 86-87, 107. See also CAT scan

-Y-

Yazbak, F. Edward, 95-99, 104, 108
Yersinia pestis. See Plague
Your Doctor Is Not In (Orient), 60
Yurko, Alan, 82