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Thursday, June 19, 2025

Intelligent American Citizens Discuss The Iran Crisis

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One of the great additions to my life has been the birth of an email group of 6, old friends and new friends, 2 doctors, 3 lawyers (one of w...
Sunday, May 4, 2025

Three Cases In My First Month Of Internship

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It was 1967. I had just graduated from Harvard Medical School where I had had maybe three months of pediatrics. I had had other clinical e...
Monday, April 14, 2025

How Bad Is It?

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This is all 10 times worse than Watergate and we'll never recover to where we were, never.  Like a catastrophic accident where you'r...
Monday, April 7, 2025

Tariffs and Trump - My View

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A friend asked me for my view of what's going on with tariffs, and how Trump will profit from them. I wrote him: I think his overall...
Friday, April 4, 2025

Big Law Phones It In

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When Trump started bullying the large law firms and Paul, Weiss and Skadden Arps and other folded, I turned to my good friend anonymous, a f...
Sunday, March 30, 2025

Catch 22, the Movie

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I just watched Catch 22 again. I had read the book in med school, I think, primed by my roommate, Ollie Korshin, who loved it. Ollie had a...

Protesting in Walnut Creek

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I took to the streets yesterday, at Walnut Creek, putting my body on the line. I was ready to be arrested, I guess – better have a lawyer ...
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A Berkeley resident for 46 years, I went to Lower Merion High in the Philadelphia suburbs,then Harvard College (history, Leverett House), Harvard Medical School, and did my pediatrics training at the University of California San Francisco. I also earned a Masters' Degree at the Goldman School of Public Policy at UC Berkeley, where I am now on the Advisory Board. I was a Fed in Washington with the U.S. Public Health Service in 1968-70, and 1973-4. As a member of the USPHS I studied at the Stockholm School of Economics for a year, and at Yale. Later on I was a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar at UCSF doing health policy analysis, published a book on Migrant Health Policy and many articles in publications such as the New England Journal of Medicine and the AMA Journal, and taught some. I practiced pediatrics from 1979 to 2012. I was President and owner of Bayside Medical Group, the largest privately held primary care medical groups in the Bay Area, until I sold it to Stanford in 2012. I am married and have three children and two step-children, 3 granddaughters and a grandson. While our permanent residence is Berkeley, we live in Maui part-time.
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