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		<title>Nature has the upper hand. So far it has “gently” protested, but …</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jan 2013 22:09:21 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Nature has the upper hand. So far it has “gently” protested, but … Bernard Lown, MD Essay 33, Part 1 The planet is warming. Facts are marching in battalions, their steps in cadence, their destination known. The few contrarian scientists who in the past demurred are now overwhelmed by the sheer weight of confirmatory evidence. &#8230; &#8230; <a href="https://bernardlown.wordpress.com/2013/01/27/441/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Power to the people: Patient in command</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Nov 2012 20:26:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Blog Essay 32* Bernard Lown, MD Benedictions to patient-centrism, patient privacy, patient autonomy &#8212; everything-for-the-patient rhetoric &#8212; flow from the pervasive PR of the health establishment. The more I hear these jingles, the more my heart skips a beat. At my age I can’t afford arrhythmia&#8217;s. My experience as a cardiologist murmurs that these extra-systoles &#8230; &#8230; <a href="https://bernardlown.wordpress.com/2012/11/03/power-to-the-people-patient-in-command/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Coronary Artery Entrapment</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jul 2012 20:26:25 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Coronary Artery Entrapment Bernard Lown, MD   Essay 31 What propelled the transformation of medicine from a humanitarian profession to a costly technocracy? It has seemingly happened in a single lifetime, and I witnessed much of it. Let me relate what transpired. Be forewarned, however: history is more accurately perceived as a Rashomon experience &#8230; &#8230; <a href="https://bernardlown.wordpress.com/2012/07/31/the-coronary-artery-entrapment/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Doctor as scientist, healer, magician, business entrepreneur, small shopkeeper, or assembly line worker &#8212; which is it? (Essay 30)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jun 2012 13:51:40 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Doctor as scientist, healer, magician, business entrepreneur, small shopkeeper, or assembly line worker &#8212; which is it? Bernard Lown, MD June 26, 2012 In the tumultuous debate about health care convulsing public discourse, the focus is on escalating costs and possible economic remedies. But the innards of the ailing system have not been adequately exposed &#8230; &#8230; <a href="https://bernardlown.wordpress.com/2012/06/26/doctor-as-scien/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Social Responsibility of Physicians (Essay 29)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Apr 2012 15:59:28 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Bernard Lown, MD Address presented at Avoiding Avoidable Care Conference April 26, 2012 Introduction Ever since starting clinical practice 62 years ago I have looked forward to this conference. Mercifully, good fortune and good genes enable me to attend.  From my earliest days in medicine I have struggled against the prevailing model of healthcare. My &#8230; &#8230; <a href="https://bernardlown.wordpress.com/2012/04/29/social-responsibility-of-physicians/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>A Maverick&#8217;s Lonely Path in Cardiology (Essay 28)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Mar 2012 21:33:37 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Bernard Lown, MD As I have just passed my 90th birthday, writing this essay reminds me of Machiavelli&#8217;s admonition when he was receiving final Communion on his deathbed. &#8220;Renounce the devil and embrace the Lord,&#8221; intoned the priest. A long silence. Then came Machiavelli&#8217;s whisper: &#8220;This is no time to make new enemies.&#8221; Let me &#8230; &#8230; <a href="https://bernardlown.wordpress.com/2012/03/10/mavericks-lonely-path-in-cardiology/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Enormity of US Military impedes nuclear abolition (Essay 27)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 03:58:16 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Bernard Lown, MD Among antinuclear activists there is a sense of jubilant expectation that at last a demonic class of genocidal weapons will soon be consigned to the junk heap of history. Left behind will be a shudder of memory of how close humans came to an abyss of self-extinction. Outlawing the nuclear genie will &#8230; &#8230; <a href="https://bernardlown.wordpress.com/2011/11/28/enormity-of-us-military-impedes-nuclear-abolition/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Wives, Yes; Husbands, No (Essay 26)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 17:06:35 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Bernard Lown, MD The above title, instead of enlightening, mystifies. Is this some sort of reverse sexism or political correctness gone awry? Actually, it reflects a deep clinical truth that took me years to fathom. Wives know more about their husbands&#8217; health problems than husbands know about their wives&#8217; or even their own. Many years &#8230; &#8230; <a href="https://bernardlown.wordpress.com/2011/09/19/wives-yes-husbands-no/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Black Blood Must Not Contaminate White Folks (Essay 25)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Sep 2011 01:17:19 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Bernard Lown, MD In the mid-20th century the Johns Hopkins Medical School was at the apogee for training doctors in the US. My matriculating there was a fluke. Every other medical school I had applied to rejected me. It was not because of low scholastic achievement. On the contrary, I graduated summa cum laude from &#8230; &#8230; <a href="https://bernardlown.wordpress.com/2011/09/03/black-blood-must-not-contaminate-white-folks/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>US Media: Unending Frustration (Part III) (Essay 24)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Aug 2011 22:07:15 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Bernard Lown, MD If transformed into a Martian, I would be in utter awe of the power of the US media to shape global opinion. At no time was this more evident than during the Cold War, when the US, time and time again, bested the vast Soviet propaganda machine. The American media convinced the &#8230; &#8230; <a href="https://bernardlown.wordpress.com/2011/08/22/us-media-unending-frustration-part-iii-essay-24/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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