On Veterans Day, contemplating a world without war (The Baltimore Sun)
Posted in Op-Eds, Print on Nov 11th, 2010
On this Veterans Day, I fondly think about my time serving as a physician-in-training at a New York Veterans Administration hospital. The year was 2000. The Gulf War was over. Our national debt was $5.7 trillion. Jobs were abundant. And “Gulf War Syndrome” was the biggest health concern for our veterans.
The VA’s motto always resonated with me: “To care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow, and his orphan.” And I tried my best to care for my patients with Gulf War Syndrome, despite the unexplainable complexity of their symptoms — ranging from...
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