Why We Whistleblowers Are Passionate in Our Convictions

Why We Whistleblowers Are Passionate in Our Convictions

Ntambwe Malangu The implementation of the comprehensive plan for the care, management, and treatment of HIV and AIDS in South Africa [1] needs to be supported by all. It is encouraging to note that Wilson and Blower [2] used South Africa to develop a novel method to determine the optimal strategy for allocating antiretroviral treatment (ART) sites among healthcare facilities (HCFs) in KwaZulu–N...

We are our brother's keeper.

York House Hospice is another hospice started on a small scale and making great accomplishments in hospice care. This author worked for some time as a thanatologist with a hospital. When the hospital closed, the author determined to open a hospice for AIDS patients. York House Hospice is a paradigm of the hard work and spirit of hospice. Here is the story of its beginning.

Are we losing our edge?

Gabriel Aeppli was born in Switzerland, but when he was 1 year old, his father came to the U.S. to pursue a career as a mathematician. Back then, America was a scientific "city on the hill," a place where enormous resources, academic freedom, a tradition of skepticism and a history of excellence lured everyone from astronomers to zoologists from all over the world, and like Aeppli's father, man...

Complementary Strategies : Why we use our hands when we think

What Can We Learn from Medical Whistleblowers?

A year ago, I received an E-mail from a research scientist at a major pharmaceutical company. The scientist had read my articles on whistleblowers who had raised concerns about the undue infl uence of the pharmaceutical industry on American medicine My industry source had information for me about drug company practices, but—out of fear of career ruin—would only talk on the condition that I woul...