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Disgraced doc David McKalip pens another op-ed attacking health care plan: ‘Patients cannot trust their doctors’ under this plan

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Disgraced doc David McKalip, who earlier this year earned national infamy for depicting President Barack Obama as a witch doctor, has written another hyperbolic op-ed criticizing Obama’s plans for better health care and insurance. In an article titled “The Medical Road to Serfdom,” McKalip warns that patients will not even be able to trust their doctors. Bureaucrats will create standards designed for cost control and force doctors to follow them. They will give insurance companies and government excuses to deny…

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A month after helping to run him out of town, Times publishes op-ed from controversial doc David McKalip

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One month after helping to run controversial doctor David McKalip out of town after he emailed a racist photo of President Barack Obama, the St. Petersburg Times published an op-ed from McKalip in which the neurosurgeon continued his efforts to block Obama’s health care plan. You can listen to McKalip’s speech here). After his public shaming, MacKalip did not go quietly into the night. He broke off from a family vacation in Yellowstone to attend a TEA Party in Montana…

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Op-ed in Tallahassee Democrat: Stan Marshall has his legacy but isn’t ready to quit

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Ol’ Stan Marshall puts his pants on one leg at time,” the barber said as he trimmed the back of my head, which may have been trembling too much for him to cut in a straight line. The barber’s words did little to soothe the anxiety I felt in preparation for a meeting in 1997 with Dr. J. Stanley Marshall, former president of Florida State University, founder of Sonitrol of Tallahassee and an all-around legend of the Tallahassee community. Marshall…

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My latest op-ed in the Tallahassee Democrat

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Two of my passions are gourmet food and politics. When I’m not walking door-to-door for a candidate, I am in front of a stove, near a wine bin or doing something otherwise epicurean. So an event I recently attended was a real McFlurry, a seemingly contradictory juxtaposition that comes out wonderfully by the time you’re finished.I was invited to a campaign fundraiser with a theme of “Cooking with the Candidate” during which a five-course meal was prepared by a master…

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Back at the keyboard (my op-ed in the Democrat)

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It’s been more than four years since I last submitted a piece for publication. Any regular reader of this blog knows why. So it’s rather satisfying to see my name in print again — and not for any reason linked to a police report. Here’s the op-ed I wrote in today’s Tallahassee Democrat on the state of the economy and one of my suggestions on how to make things better for the working class. Seriously, I have a better feeling…

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