Wesley J. Smith

I have embedded the trailer for the upcoming puff HBO bio of the murderer Jack Kevorkian, entitled, You Don’t Know Jack , at the bottom of this post. Before viewing it, take a look at a few of the key aspects of Kevorkian’s “career” that I have listed below. Anyone want to . . . . Continue Reading »

I have embedded the trailer for the upcoming puff HBO bio of the murderer Jack Kevorkian, entitled, You Don’t Know Jack, at the bottom of this post. Before viewing it, take a look at a few of the key aspects of Kevorkian’s “career” that I have listed below.  Anyone want . . . . Continue Reading »

This is the third post devoted to the content of my new book.   In the first post, I quoted from novelist Dean Koontz’s preface, and about six weeks ago, I excerpted the opening section of the Introduction.  Today, we conclude our look at the Introduction, in which I . . . . Continue Reading »

I am convinced that President Obama is ignorant—not generally, but about how medicine is actually practiced.  Recall when he defamed pediatricians by claiming that some perform unnecessary tonsillectomies for the money, apparently unaware that a child’s primary care doc would not be . . . . Continue Reading »

Der Spiegel is one of the best news magazines around. In the current issue, it carries an interview with an emergency room physician who thinks he should be able to refuse to save the life of patients whose quality of life he finds too low, and kill others, based on the same criteria.  From the . . . . Continue Reading »

A few weeks ago WBAI (Pacifica Radio, “Your peace and justice community radio station”) host Shelton Waldon conducted a wide ranging interview with me about my new book. He has edited it down and it first aired today.What is unusual about the program, is that Walden edited out most of . . . . Continue Reading »

After all the years of constant nagging, I think a lot of people are beginning to side with the . . . . Continue Reading »

A physician named Dr. Eliezer Van Allen wrote an opinion column in this morning’s San Francisco Chronicle intending to puncture the fear of “death panels” in the context of our political debate over Obamacare—although he is not discussing the plan’s rationing boards, . . . . Continue Reading »

Oh, the howling. A doctor unhappy with the passage of Obamacare put up a note stating, “If you voted for Obama—seek urological care elsewhere. Changes to your health care begin right now. Not in four years.”Some are outraged, including a demagogue Congressman who once said . . . . Continue Reading »

Obamacare supporters should—but won’t—be held to account for holding some good ideas hostage to all the bad ones in the new law.  For example, the problem of pre-existing conditions truly did cry out for reform.  Creating federal/private insurance company-subsidized  . . . . Continue Reading »