Donald R. May MD, FACS is a retina surgeon residing in Lubbock Texas. In 2003, he ran for the United States House of Representatives. He has served on the faculties of the University of Illinois, the University of Texas, the University of California, Tulane University, and Texas Tech Health Sciences University. He has lectured and taught ocular surgery and medical economics throughout the United States and abroad.
Dr. May served for twelve years on the Health Organization Management MBA faculty, a joint project of the Texas Tech School of Medicine and College of Business Administration.
Wednesday, July 1, 2009President Obama Will Opt OutBy Donald R. MayFiled As: Health CarePresident Barack Obama wants only the best for his family. He wants only the best medical care for them. That is understandable and commendable. We all want the same. Obama, however, wants government health care for everyone else. The Elite will apparently be exempt. Most of us will be ... more »»
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Tuesday, June 23, 2009The Power GrabBy Donald R. MayFiled As: Health CareWhy is everything an emergency matter for President Barack Obama? The answer is quite simple. Marxists make everything an emergency, rushing each power grab and payoff before opponents have the time to read, understand, or comment.We recall with disgust and frustration that Obama claimed if his ... more »»
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Thursday, June 18, 2009From Best to Worst -- The Plan for our Health CareBy Donald R. MayFiled As: Health CareOther nations have found to their financial detriment, and to the unnecessary suffering and death of millions of their subjects, that government run health care is expensive, inefficient, and illogical. Our friends in Canada, Britain, and throughout Europe encourage and beg us not to go down ... more »»
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Thursday, May 14, 2009Of Postage Stamps and Health CareBy Donald R. MayFiled As: Health CareOn Monday the price of mailing a one-ounce First Class letter using the United States Postal Service increased to 44 cents. This represents a fifteen-fold (1,100%) increase over the past 51 years. We have experienced the similar, dramatic cost increases with health care and education since the federal ... more »»
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Monday, April 6, 2009The Costly Funding of Embryonic Stem Cell ResearchBy Donald R. MayFiled As: Health CareSince embryonic stem-cell research (SCR) has produced no apparent desirable results and no successful clinical trials, its private funding has been disappearing. Just like failing public education, the results of unproductive embryonic SCR have paradoxically increased political pressure for government ... more »»
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Friday, April 3, 2009Politically Correct Stem Cell Research is Bad MedicineBy Donald R. MayFiled As: Health CareA dangerous combination of political and social ideology is determined to make embryonic stem cell research (SCR) succeed. In normal research, when Plan A (embryonic SCR) does not work and Plan B (adult SCR) does work and gives the results desired for Plan A, Plan B would attract the publicity, scientists,... more »»
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Friday, March 20, 2009Political Science is No Way to Do ResearchBy Donald R. MayFiled As: Health CareOne would hope that science, education, and national security would be above politics. As we relearn daily, they are not. On Monday 09 March, President Obama signed an executive order removing the limitations placed on embryonic stem cell research by President Bush. This will effectively open ... more »»
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Monday, December 29, 2008Avoiding the Next Flu PandemicBy Donald R. MayFiled As: Health CareAs we enter another flu season, we are reminded that we are due for another global flu pandemic which may kill a large number of our fellow humans. How great is the danger, and how can we protect ourselves? The H5N1 avian flu virus thus far appears to have infected only humans who had direct contact ... more »»
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Thursday, July 10, 2008Patient Ownership of Health is the American WayBy Donald R. MayFiled As: Health CareOur nation champions free enterprise and personal freedoms. We have fought wars to end socialist tyranny, and we stand firm against North Korea, Cuba, and other communist dictatorships. How is it that we are on a path to socialized medicine when Canada, Britain, and even Russia and China are seeking free ... more »»
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Wednesday, July 9, 2008Medicaid, Medicare: Rationing Through a Thousand CutsBy Donald R. MayFiled As: Health CareIf you doubt that government-run health plans lead to rationing, consider Medicaid and especially Medicare.As Medicare prepares to cut physician reimbursement by 10.6% on 15 July, physicians nationwide are preparing to no longer care for Medicare patients. It was more »»
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