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Home » Archives by category » Op-Ed » Bharani Padmanabhan
The Government is Responsible For Sky-High Drug Prices
By: Bharani Padmanabhan – June, 2019 Liberal Lion Ted Kennedy pushed through the 1980 Bayh-Dole Act and the 2009 Biologics Price Competition and Innovation Act. The Bayh-Dole Act allowed private…
A Million Lawsuits Are Coming, And About Time Too
By: Bharani Padmanabhan – May, 2019 And so it ends, with a whimper rather than the expected bang of a hundred billion dollar squeeze. Even before the lucre has been…
Doctors Are Not Airline Pilots
By: Bharani Padmanabhan – April, 2019 When Lucian Leape abandoned the profession of medicine and set out to make it subservient to corporate monopolies he began by claiming doctors are…
Chicago Proves Superior To Essex County District Attorney Blodgett
By: Bharani Padmanabhan – March, 2019 Chicago just indicted and arrested Jussie Smollett, an actor, for the felony of filing a false police complaint. The false complaint aimed to support…
MA Medical Society Supports Violating Physicians’ Rights
By: Bharani Padmanabhan – Feb. 2019 That our government cannot simply take a person’s liberty or property without due process is a bedrock principle of the United States as found…
Boston’s Own Kitty Genovese Case
By: Bharani Padmanabhan – Jan. 2019 Everyone of a certain age instantly recalls the Kitty Genovese case, the New York Times’ now-timeless tale of city folk who ignored a murder…
The Baker-Sudders “Opioid Law” is on the Wrong Side of History
By: Bharani Padmaabhan – Dec. 2018 Federal agencies including SAMHSA and the DEA released data for years documenting that overdose deaths were due to illegally-imported fentanyl and Heroin®. Despite the…
Sheriff Coppinger Will Bring up the Rear Rather Than Lead From the Front
By: Bharani Pandamabhan – Oct. 2018 Valley Patriot readers know that in June I had written a plea to Essex County Sheriff Kevin Coppinger to provide medical treatment in-house to…
Massachusetts Lawyers Are Happy To Maintain That Two Plus Two Makes Five
By: Bharani Padmanabhan – Sept. 2018 Recently-retired Justice Kennedy once wrote: “Nineteen Eighty-Four has one of the most brilliant scenes in literature. The protagonist is being tortured by his communist…
Rep. José Tosado Embodies State House’s ‘Failure To Protect’
By: Bharani Padmanabhan – August, 2018 State Auditor Suzanne Bump recently released an audit on complaints handled by the Division of Professional Licensure. Almost every profession requires a license these…
Blocking Doctors Begins Earlier Than Thought
By: Bharani Padmanabhan – July, 2018 We have reached the point in the United States where pretty much anyone has been deemed worthy of second-guessing doctors. Some high-school dropout at…
Opioid-Receptor Treatment is Mandatory Under the ADA and the 8th Amendment
By: Dr. Bharani Padmanabhan – June, 2018 The U.S. FDA long ago approved medicines for the treatment of patients whose brains respond differently to pain medicines that work at the…
If You Are Not With The Collective, You Are Disruptive
By:Dr. Bharani Padmanabhan – May, 2018 In April 2018 historians in Prague rediscovered original footage from the notorious Slánský show trial. Said the historians, “One day, when we can make…
Supporters of the Corrupt Swamp Resent Hearing About Corruption (#theyallknow)
By: Dr. Bharani Padmanabhan – March, 2018 I’ve wondered about the clerical staff at our courthouses who see shady briefs pass through their hands and witness judges issue corrupt decisions…
Being Maura Healey’s Friend Comes with the Best Perk
By: Bharai Padmanabhan ByMaura’s friends are the luckiest. To have the Attorney General in your corner is the best Get Out of Jail Free card. Many decisions are discretionary but…
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