Tom Price

Tom, the Price is not right

Submitted by Alligator Ed on Thu, 09/28/2017 - 6:56am

Some of you might remember my Autumnal reading and music list included the following suggested book:

My Price is Right by Tom Price, secretary of health pillaging. In this, Dr. Tom explains how to become obscenely rich investing in health stocks that he controls.

It now appears that Price (whom I refuse to recognize as a physician) has boondoggled his way into the public ire. His crime is spending inordinate amounts of other people's money jet-setting.

Hippocrates and the Price of Hypocrisy

Submitted by Alligator Ed on Mon, 01/23/2017 - 11:20pm

Donald Trump, hereafter to be referred to by a medical acronym DT ( = delirium tremens, a severe alcohol-withdrawal syndrome with occasional lethality) has already had his first scandals--even before he was in office. No, not crude language but his choices for a number of cabinet positions. The most obviously terrible is Betsy DeVos for Education Secretary. The funder of "Conversion Therapy" groups.