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There is some logic in the fact that President Obama has fled the country while Israel’s Prime Minister Netanyahu addresses Congress. With Obama’s comments this past week on Israel, the president now appears to many as the most hostile sitting president in the history of the Jewish state. A key …

Theresa Brown’s New York Times op-ed, Physician, Heel Thyself, recently introduced hospital bullying into the national health care conversation. (1) In it, she recounted a hospital vignette while working as an oncology nurse. A patient asked a doctor who should he blame for a late test result. The physician, turning …

In the rush to explain Saturday’s tragic shooting of Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, many in the media have rushed to link the bloodbath to what they see as the recent upsurge in harsh political rhetoric emanating mostly from the political right. While they take pains to paint their theses with …