This country is on the verge of facing a substantial shortage of physicians.

I think we as physicians are going to see assembly of a large number of antimicrobial peptides targeted against specific organisms, including viruses.

It's a struggle across the country to get physicians and other health skills professionals in rural and urban underserved areas.

They aren't voting on whether the Cactus Club should serve liquor, but whether it should be improved. I've been doing this for 15 years and this is the first time in my memory that a client didn't get a permit for a renovation.

Healthcare providers today are embarking on new ground. Hospitals, insurance agencies, physicians and educators throughout the country are signing up for a series of events to provide their staff with continuous motivational tools and training. Healthcare companies are aware not only of the benefits of this training, but also of the economic benefits of long term training which is easily measured via ROI studies.

Physicians must be free to make clinical determinations, in accordance with medical standards of care, that best safeguard a woman's life and health. Women and their families, along with their doctors, are simply better than politicians at making decisions about their medical care.