Tag Archives: public opinion

“We live in the United States of Amnesia”

By Steve | Published: March 20, 2010
Gore Vidal said those words in the documentary Why We Fight. To me, it is the punchline to the question: What do you call the country that ignores the lessons of history and is doomed to repeat them? Vidal was explaining why we don’t understand the animosity that people in the Mideast have for the [...]
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A book for resolve: Change or Die

By Steve | Published: January 1, 2010
Change or Die by Alan Deutschman was referred to me by a physician who is using its ideas to help her patients make life changes (thanks, Deb). It was an ideal read to usher in a new year, a new decade and a new phase in my career. Many of the change ideas were familiar to [...]
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The word for what I feel about Obama: Disappointed

By Steve | Published: November 29, 2009
I’m trying to be patient. But WTF: first we line up behind Russia and China in favor landmines, and now we’ll be escalating war?
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Health care reformer ahead of his time

By Steve | Published: November 22, 2009
Book review: The Story of Dr. Sidney R. Garfield by Tom Debley and Jon Stewart Sid Garfield’s plan for health care reform was so far ahead of its time that the organization he founded — Kaiser Permanente — still drives toward the vision, years after his death. (Disclosure: I am senior director of communications and [...]
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Stories trump facts: The mammography lesson

By Steve | Published: November 21, 2009
The facts are clear: You have to give 1,900 women mammograms before you save one life. Along the way are hundreds of false positives, needless worry and unnecessary procedures. The stories are more compelling: We all know someone whose breast cancer was caught early. That one life is real to us. The hundreds of false-positives [...]
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Bioscience vs. PETA: The told story

By Steve | Published: April 29, 2009
A researcher once called me to his lab, spitting mad at PETA. His inbox was filled with nasty-grams, spurred on by a PETA campaign against his research, which involved killing small animals. He wanted me to help him publish an op-ed in which he methodically laid out the reasons for using animals in research that [...]
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