Tag Archives: Current Events

‘Fight for Us Goddamnit’: Frustration Grows Over Biden Fecklessness Amid GOP Destruction | Portside

Posted on 7 July, 2022 by AJ Layon

The muted response from the White House following the July 4 mass shooting at a parade in Highland Park, Illinois has intensified frustration felt by progressives over the Biden administration’s approach to the crises facing the United States, coming less than … Continue reading →

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Some Maudlin Thoughts on the 4th of July – A Comment to Steve Schmidt

Posted on 4 July, 2022 by AJ Layon

Hey Steve – I read your piece – and it was beautiful – on our country and the 4th of July. Riffing from your piece, these are my thoughts on this day. Im older. I’ve some years left – I … Continue reading →

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Where and What are We? Re-Posting A Quora Piece, as the Time is RIght

Posted on 15 August, 2020 by AJ Layon

What an odd query! How likely is an authoritarian state – in the United States – if we, finally, get a national health system, a rational educational system, and UBI? Really? Firstly, in case you haven’t noticed, the present US … Continue reading →

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Working in the Virus’ Shadow: SARS-CoV-2, 7 July, 2020, 1400 Hrs

Posted on 7 July, 2020 by AJ Layon

I am sweating. It has been a while since I last posted on this topic. Not because I have been ignoring SARS-CoV-2, rather because being in the hospital – in the ICU – caring for COVID19 and other patients, has … Continue reading →

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Working in the Virus’ Shadow: SARS-CoV-2 28 March, 2020, 1132 Hrs

Posted on 30 March, 2020 by AJ Layon

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This should have been the first post on this topic, under this heading, that I made. With so many high quality sites available, why put together another to attempt to explain the Pandemic that is upon us? I think for … Continue reading →

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Working in the Virus’ Shadow: SARS-CoV-2 26 March, 2020, 0204 Hrs

Posted on 26 March, 2020 by AJ Layon

We all know something is happening. Something that we’ve not seen before. Of course we see it in the news reports, the closings, the empty streets. We are not used to this. We see it in the gallows humor: If … Continue reading →

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Working in the Virus’ Shadow: SARS-CoV-2 22 March, 2020, 0138 Hrs

Posted on 26 March, 2020 by AJ Layon

I am an ICU physician. I have cared for HIV Patients at the beginning of what became known as the AIDS Epidemic. I have worked in conflict zones in Central America, as a physician with the (then) Revolutionary Nicaraguan Government … Continue reading →

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Quora Query: Have You Ever Witnessed Hospital Administration Turn Away a Patient that Should have Been Seen Right Away?

Posted on 12 February, 2020 by AJ Layon

In the United States, complements of a law passed in 1986 – The Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA) – a hospital cannot turn away someone who has an emergency. Rather, the institution must treat it – at least … Continue reading →

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CDC Abruptly Cancels Long-Planned Conference on Climate Change and Health

Posted on 22 January, 2020 by AJ Layon

Gentle Reader – Just as Trump was to be inaugurated, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention lost their spine. It is appropriate to re-post this as we have seen in the past several months – in Australia which appears … Continue reading →

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Trump’s budget is a Stealth Health-Care Bill. And it Would Make Americans Sick.

Posted on 22 January, 2020 by AJ Layon

Gentle Reader – Doctor Homer wrote this almost three years ago, yet it remains important today. While the Republicans attempt to whitewash Trump’s  crimes, and while we watch this in mixed horror and disbelief, behind the scenes the same people … Continue reading →

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