Medical Sentinel Index
Volume 7 (2002)

A-

Absolute risk, 22-23
Academic fraud, 107
Adams, Samuel, 75
AFL-CIO, 116-118
AIDS, 5,7,24,121
Alzheimer's Disease, 72
American Medical Association (AMA), 1 (gun control), 4,5,32 (bioethics), 49, 69 (tort reform), 76-78 (on HMO lawsuits), 112, 113, 116-118, 132
American Medical News (AMNews), 7, 76-78
Amoxacillin, 24. See also Antibiotics
Amygdala (brain), 13
Animal experiments, 48-49
Animal Liberation (Singer), 58-59
Annis, Edward R., 32, 116-118, 128
Antibiotics, 24, 122-123
Arizona (State of), 101
Arnett, Grace-Marie, 8-9
Arnett, Jerome C., Jr., 33, 48-49, 56-59, 65-66,134-135
Ashcroft, John, 77
As Sick As It Gets (Mueller), 103
Assisted reproduction, 40
Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS), 7, 29, 33-34, 42-47, 75, 98, 100, 109, 110, 128, 130
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD),16-21
Autism, 126-127

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Barnes, George R., 16-21
Bartlett, Bruce, 40
Bastiat, Frederic, 60-61
Beauchamp, Tom, 48
Behavior. See Human behavior
Bellesiles, Michael, 107
Benefits of firearms. See Public health and gun control
Bentham, Jeremy, 58-59
Beria, Lavrentia, 12
Betrayed (Douglass), 136-137
Beyond Freedom and Dignity (Skinner), 13-14
Biblical perspective (Judeo-Christian), 52-53, 67
Bill of Rights, 27-28
Bioethics, 33, 44-59, 69-70
Biological warfare, 67-68
Bioterrorism, 2-3, 25, 67-68, 70, 101, 108 (smallpox)
Bioterrorism (Blaylock), 67-68
Birth defects, 40
Black death, 119-120. See also Infectious Diseases
Blaylock, Russell, 1-3, 10-15, 35-36, 67-68, 136-137
Blevins, Sue, 32
Borchers, Samia, 1, 7
Brain experiments. See Neuropharmacology and Psychological Warfare
Brain function, 12-14, 102
Brase, Twila, 25, 64
Brave New World (Huxley), 14
Breast cancer, 107. See also carcinogenesis
Breastfeeding, 107
Burke, Edmund, 15
Bush, George W., 8-9, 41, 64, 107

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Caine, Curtis W., 27-28, 60-61, 97-98, 127-128
Callahan, Daniel, 48
Canada, 36 (universal health), 131
Caps, 86-87 (on damage awards), 91
Carcinogenesis (cancer), 6, 24, 107 (breast)
Carmona, Richard, 42
Castro, Fidel, 1-2, 11, 65-66, 73 (doctor diplomacy)
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 5, 24, 112-113 (gun control)
Cerrito, Patricia B., 16-21
Charlton, Bruce G., 132, 134
Child abuse, 39 (UN)
Children, 16-21, 113-114
Children and guns, 114-115, 132-133
Cholera, 121
Chovanes, George, 102
Cihak, Robert, 3, 7
Citizens Council on Health Care (CCHC), 25, 64
Civil defense, 2, 101
Civil liberties, 114-115. See also Liberty
Civil rights, 25, 27-28, 124
Clinical research, 16-21
Clinton, Hillary Rodham, 130-131
Clinton, William Jefferson, 12
Cloning, 72
Coding, 78 (CPT monopoly)
Cohen, Merrill A., 50-55
Communists, 10-15, 35-36, 38
Compassion fascism, 41
Consolazio, Paul G., 96-97
Corlin, Richard, 4, 69, 78
Corporate socialized medicine, 44-45, 52-54, 56
Cost containment, 51-52
Countersuits by physicians, 72, 88-91, 105-106
Crack babies, 11
Crie de coeur, 94
Crime, 11-12, 108
Cruzan, Nancy, 49
Cuba (health care), 1-2, 65-66, 73
Cuba in Revolution-Escape From a Lost Paradise (Faria), 1, 65-66, 129
Cuban psychiatry, 66
Culture of Death (Smith), 44-50
"Culture of Death." See Bioethics
Curran, Mary Jo, 34
Czechoslovakia, 10-15 (neuropharmacology)

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Danehower, Chester, 98-99
DDT, 134-135
Dean, Howard, 130-131
Declaration of Independence, 60-61, 75, 121,127-128
Delgado, José, 13-14
Democide, 1
Disability, 49
Distributive (social) justice, 48-55
DNA (and RNA), 25, 121
Doctors for Responsible Gun Ownership (DRGO), 112-113
Double-blind (studies), 17-18. See also Science
Douglass, Joseph D., 10-15, 36, 67-68, 136-137
Drug abuse (and addiction), 5, 11-14, 35-36
Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), 44-46
Dunegan, Lawrence A., 124-126
Duty to die. See Bioethics
Dworkin, Ronald, 48

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Economics, 5, 125
Ecstasy (drug), 13
Education, 5-6
Emory University, 107 (Bellesiles), 113 (Kellermann)
Entitlements, 131, 137. See also Welfare
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), 134-135
Esposito, Scott, 24
Euthanasia(and physician-assisted suicide), 44-50 (in Oregon and the U.S., Netherlands, etc.), 57, 58-59 (humans vs animals), 74 (in Belgium)
Evaluation and management (E&M) guidelines, See Coding
Excitotoxins, 13-14, 35

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Faria, Miguel A., Jr., 8-9, 41, 44-47, 65-66, 76-78,107-108, 112-115, 118-123, 130, 132-133, 135
Fascism, 41
Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), 2
The Federalist Papers (Hamilton, Madison, Jay), 94-95, 97-98
Fentanyl, 13
Fiedor, Doug, 94-95, 130-131
Fletcher, Joseph, 48, 58
Food and Drug Administration (FDA), 5, 24
Forced Exit (Smith), 44-50
Foundation for Economic Education (FEE). See Ideas on Liberty
Founding Fathers, 52, 75, 94-98
Franklin, Benjamin, 96
Fraud and abuse, 72
Friedman, Milton, 5
Futile care theory. See Bioethics

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Galen Institute, 8
General practice, 94
Genetic testing, 25. See also Cloning
"Georgetown mantra," 48-49, 56-57
Georgia (State of), 99
Gervais, Robert P., 33
Glueck, Michael A., 3, 7
Good Samaritan, 53
Goodman, John C., 37
Great Britain, 6 (National Health Service; NHS)
Gun control. See Public health and gun control
Gun violence, 112-115, 118, 132-133

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Hamilton, Alexander, 98
Hardwig, John, 33, 48-49
Harshman, Edward J., 126-127
Health care, 25, 40 (costs), 50-51, 63, 109, 124-126,130-131
Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA), 32, 124
Healthcare News, 26, 31, 61, 67, 111
Healthcare Online for Dummies (Wolinsky), 31
Health insurance, 124-125. See also Uninsured
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA; Kassebaum-Kennedy Law), 72, 77, 98-99, 100
Health Maintenance Organization (HMO), 8-9, 45, 50-55, 76-78, 124-125
Health mandates, 37
Health policy, 8, 25, 40, 50-55 (collectivism), 63 (Maryland), 101 (Arizona), 109 (lawsuits),110, 128
Heartland Institute. See Healthcare News
Heritage Foundation, 63
Hiatt, Mark, 86-87
High-deductible (insurance), 8-9
Hippocrates (Oath of), 44-47, 51-52, 57, 69-70, 75, 131, 137
History, 6, 56, 116-123 (medical)
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 122
Homosexuality, 5
Hudson Institute, 5
Hugo, Victor, 59
Human behavior, 11-21, 42, 102, 126-127
Human genome. See Cloning, DNA, Genetic testing
Hunter, Edward, 14
Huntoon, Lawrence R., 7, 87
Huxley, Aldous, 14
Hygiene and sanitation, 122-123
Hyperkinetic disorder. See ADHD
Hypertension (and stroke), 22-24


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Ideas on Liberty, 29, 47, 70, 106
Illinois (State of), 98-99
Individual rights, 25, 41. See also Civil liberties
Infectious diseases, 3 (smallpox; plague),11 (AIDS; hepatitis; tuberculosis), 67 (anthrax)101, 119-123 (history of). See also Plagues and epidemics
"Insouciance," 43
International statistics, 113-115

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Jakob-Creutzfeldt disease, 121
Jefferson, Thomas, 13, 32, 41, 96, 104, 131
Johnson, Lyndon B., 117
Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), 50, 69, 94, 135
Journal of Trauma, 132-133
Junk food, 40
Junk Science Judo (Milloy), 134-135
Justinian (emperor), 119-120
Juvenile delinquency, 108, 115, 132-133

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Kellermann, Arthur, 112-113
Kennedy, Edward, 8-9, 64, 117
Kennedy, John F., 117-118
Kerr-Mills bill, 116-118
Kevorkian, Jack, 48-49
Khrushchev, Nikita, 8
KGB (neuropharmacology), 10-15
Koch, Robert, 113, 122
Koop, C. Everett, 31
Korean war, 10-11, 136-137

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Labor bosses, 116-118
Labor unions, 116-118
Lamm, Richard, 49
Law enforcement, 35-36
Lawsuits. See Medical liability
Lawyers, 8, 28, 72, 79-91, 99-101, 105-109
Levi, Inessa, 16-21
Lexicon, 124-126
Liability. See Medical liability
Liberty, 23, 50-51, 101, 127-128
Life expectancy, 122-123
"Lineage," 97-98
Linear no-threshold hypothesis, 36
Locke, John, 131, 137
Loftman, Bert, 35
Lott, John, 113-114
LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide), 12-13
Lung cancer. See Carcinogenesis

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Mad cow disease, 121
Madison, James, 94-95, 97-98
Malaria, 121
Malpractice. See Medical liability
Managed care, 8-9, 124-125. See also Health Maintenance Organization (HMO)
Mariguana (cannabis), 13
Marik, Jaroslav J., 105-106
Marshall, John, 94, 97
Maryland (State of), 63
Maternal mortality, 122-123
Matthews, Merrill, 29
McAfee, Robert E., 76
McCammon, Julie, 89-91
McCammon, Kyle S., 79-85, 88-91, 104
McGee, Kristopher, 131, 137
Medicaid, 33, 37, 44-45, 72, 116-118
Medical boards, 69, 79, 94
Medical errors, 84-85, 88
Medical ethics, 44-59
Medical history, 116-123
Medical Injury Reform Act (MICRA), 78, 81
Medical liability, 4, 71-72, 76-91, 99-101, 105-109
Medical Professionalism Project (Physician Charter), 56-57, 74
Medical records. See Patient Confidentiality
Medical Savings Accounts (MSA), 7, 29, 37, 110
Medical Sentinel, 33, 36, 44-45, 69-70, 72, 76, 78,107, 135
Medical Warrior (Faria), 5, 7, 118, 121, 123
Medicare, 32-33, 37, 40 (physician refusing), 44-45, 72, 98 (prosecutions), 116-118 (history of)
Medicare's Midlife Crisis (Blevins), 32
Medline, 31
Meier, Conrad F., 63
Mencken, H.L., 61
Meyer, Delbert H., 31, 67, 102
Milloy, Steven J., 134-135
Minnesota (State of), 25, 64
Misguided philosophy, 33, 50-55
Mississippi (State of), 99
Model State Emergency Health Powers Legislation, 25, 101
Mueller, Rudolph, 103-104
Multimodality treatment, 16-17

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National Center for Policy Analysis (NCPA), 3, 5, 8, 73, 99-101, 109
National ID card, 66
National service, 41 (community)
Natural rights, 58-59, 94-95, 97-98, 131, 137
Nazis, 44-46, 53, 56, 124-125
Neomorts (Orient), 61
Netherlands, 44-45 (euthanasia), 48
Neurodegenerative disease, 13, 35, 72
Neuropharmacology, 10-15, 35-36
Neurosurgeons, 102
Neurotransmitters, 13-14
New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), 69, 112-113, 134
New Jersey (State of), 101
Newsmax media, 39, 71, 74, 92-93
McCain, John, 8
Nightingale, Florence, 122-123
Nigro, Samuel, 69-70
Nixon, Richard M., 8
Nobel laureates, 5
"Non-covered entity," 100
Norwood, Charlie, 9, 77
Nuclear disaster, 25

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Obstetricians, 71-72, 76
Off-label prescribing, 24. See also Pharmaceuticals
Opting-out of Medicare, 33-35
Orient, Jane M., 32, 36, 76, 103-104
Oregon (State of), 130
Orwell, George, 12, 124-125
Otto, Katharine C., 34-35

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Pain management, 44-45
Parkinson's Disease, 13, 72
Pasteur, Louis, 121-122
Patient confidentiality, 25, 42, 64
Patient-physician relationship. See also Medical Ethics
Patients Bill of Rights, 8, 37, 86
Paul, Ron, 110
Pendleton, James L., 29
Pennsylvania (State of), 29
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), 49-50
Pharmaceuticals (prescription drugs), 22-24, 125
Phenylpropanolamine (PPA), 22-24
Philosophy, 33, 51 (Libertarianism), 59 (Objectivism)
Physician-assisted suicide, 44-50. See also Euthanasia
Physician prosecutions, 98-99. See also Fraud and Abuse
Pickering, Chip, 60
Plagues and epidemics, 119-121
Plastic surgery, 108
Plunder, 60-61
Pneumonia, 24
Politics, 8-9, 32, 53-54, 56-57, 63-64, 76-78, 116-118
Population-based ethics. See Bioethics
Prisoners of War (POW), 1, 10-11, 136-137
Privacy Rule, 42, 64
Privatization, 73
Propaganda (in health care), 124-126
Psychiatry, 42
Psychological warfare, 10-15
Public health and gun control, 1, 4, 69, 112-115,118, 132-133

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Quality assurance, 124-125
Quill, Timothy, 45

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Radiation, 3, 4, 25, 36
Radiowaves, 14
Rand, Ayn, 57
Rationing medical care, 25, 44-47, 131, 137
Rea, William J., 36
Reading, 132-133
Red Cocaine (Douglass), 10, 137
Refundable tax credit, 8, 37
Regulations, 24, 36, 44, 63-64 (bureaucracy)
Republican Party (GOP), 8-9. See also Politics
Reuther, Walter, 117-118
Right to health care, 131, 137
Ritalin (methylphenidate) 16-21
Ruddy, Christopher, 39. See also Newsmax
Rummel, R.J., 1
Rush, Benjamin, 120-121
Russians, 10-15

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Savimbi, Jonas, 38
Scandlen, Greg, 3, 8-9
Schlafly, Andrew, 33, 98
Schlafly, Phyllis, 37
Science, 16-21, 42, 67, 112-115, 118, 112-123, 132-133
Sejna, Jan (Major), 10-15, 136-137
Semmelweiss, Ignaz, 122-123
Senior citizens, 116-118
Serkes, Kathryn A., 42
The Sharp Edge of the Soul (Chovanes), 102
Sherman, John M., 32-33
Singer, Peter, 45, 48, 58-59
Single-payer. See Socialized medicine
Skin cancer, 7
Skinner, B.F., 13-14
Smallpox, 3, 108, 120
Smith, Wesley J., 44-49, 57-58
Snow, John, 121
Socialized medicine, 8-9, 36 (Canada), 43-44 (Europe), 63, 65-66 (Cuba), 71 (Spain), 72 (Britain), 73 (Sweden), 116-118 (U.S.), 130 (Oregon), 137
Social justice. See Distributive justice
Soviets, 10-15, 35-36, 56, 115, 136-137
Speciesism, 58
Stalin, Joseph, 12, 115
"Statistical malpractice," 132-133
Stem cell research, 72. See also Cloning
Suicide, 113-114
Suter, Edgar, 112-113
Syphilis, 120

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Tavistock principles (of ethics), 57
Taxes, 3 (credits), 40 (tobacco), 63. See also Refundable tax credits
Television (and violence), 42, 132-133
Templeton, Sir John, 92-93
Terrell, Hilton P., 22-24
Terrorism, 2, 25, 67, 101, 108 (smallpox)
Tetracycline, 24
Texas (State of), 28, 100
Third party payers, 37, 45, 94, 124-125
Thomasma, David, 48
Thompson, Tommy, 64
Tidwell, Thomas J., 70
Tobacco, 40
Tort reform, 28, 76-78 (California), 79-91, 99-101
Tuberculosis, 123

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Uninsured, 3, 37, 63
Unionization. See Labor unions
United Nations (UN), 27, 38 (global taxes), 39 (child sexual abuse), 115
Universal health insurance (coverage), 63. See Socialized medicine
Urban, Robert, 7, 43, 75, 110, 128
U.S. Constitution, 27-28, 41, 60-61, 86, 94-95, 97-98,104, 127-128
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), 64, 72
U.S. State Department, 65
U.S. Supreme Court, 94-95, 104
Utilitarianism. See Bioethics and Distributive justice

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Vaccines, 25, 67, 101, 109
Vandals at the Gates of Medicine (Faria), 9, 28, 59, 107, 120-121, 123
Veatch, Robert, 48
Vermont (State of), 130
Venona files, 14
Vietnam war, 11-12
Violence, 42, 108. See also Crime
Violence Policy Center (VPC), 132-133
Viruses. See Infectious diseases

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Wagner-Murray-Dingell Bill, 116-118
Wall Street Journal, 71, 77, 99, 101, 108
"War on drugs," 44-45
Washington (State of), 137
Webster, Robert M., 94
Welfare, 56, 131, 137
West Virginia (State of), 79-84, 100
Wheeler, Timothy, 112
Wolinsky, Howard, 31
Wolinsky, Judy, 31
World Health Organization (WHO), 50
World Net Daily, 2, 30, 130

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Yellow fever, 120-121
Your Doctor Is Not In (Orient), 32, 57, 108