Some Black Lives Don’t Matter
By Marilyn M. Singleton, MD, JD I grew up in a segregated neighborhood where within three months of our Doberman’s death, our house was burglarized 4 times. Thus, a new architectural feature: burglar bars. I […]
COVID-19 and the Universal Health Scare
By Marilyn M. Singleton, MD, JD Politicians are a strange lot. Not content with merely being Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi is moonlighting as Surgeon General, opining on what medications the President should be […]
Tearing Apart Our Social Fabric, Thread by Thread
By Marilyn M. Singleton, MD, JD It seems like some folks have used the ghost of Ernesto “Ché” Guevara as their guide through the COVID-19 epidemic in the United States. “To send men to the […]
Hoarding Toilet Paper is Not the New Normal
By Marilyn M. Singleton, MD, JD During my last visit to the grocery store, after directing me to the hermetically sealed conveyor belt, the clerk grinning proudly said, “welcome to the new normal.” No, thank […]
Will the FDA Find Courage in the Age of COVID-19?
By Marilyn M. Singleton, MD, JD While on lockdown to save our neighbors from a lonely death from the disease called CoViD-19, many of us have turned to movies. I beg you not to rent […]
Gone Too Far: Drag Queen Lunacy and Child Abuse
Marilyn M. Singleton, MD, JD In today’s brave new world, imagine receiving a letter from the school principal about your only child: Your son will not be home tonight but your daughter will be home […]
What is Worse: Going Viral or Verbal Quarantine?
By Marilyn M. Singleton, MD, JD As the death toll and cases of 2019- nCoV (aka novel coronavirus) infection rises, our curiosity increases as to the epidemic’s when, why, where, and how. Is the new […]
Fake History and the Constitutional Value of a Black Person
By Marilyn M. Singleton, MD, JD “Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union, according to their respective Numbers, which shall be determined by adding […]
Data Mining, Artificial Intelligence, and Angels of Death
By Marilyn M. Singleton, MD, JD Google is universally well known as a search and advertising company. Now Google is tapping into the $3.5 trillion healthcare market. To compete with the Apple Watch, Google acquired […]
Giving Medicare for All a Facelift: the Ugly Is Still There
By Marilyn M. Singleton, MD, JD Medicare for All (M4A) retained its prominent place on the stage at the latest Democratic debate. In its purest Bernie Sanders form, concurrent with abolishing private health insurance, U.S. […]
