Just Deserts
If you haven’t read, heard or seen—or heard of—and don’t know Amesh Adalja, you eventually, possibly will in the future. The Pittsburgh medical doctor’s a friend, source and fellow Objectivist who’s become widely known during the 2020 pandemic and its continuing and cataclysmic aftermath. That Dr. Adalja lectures at various medical and philosophical conferences, constantly talks to the press about facts, evidence and analysis about his field of endeavor, infectious disease, ought not to discourage anyone from getting to know him as a whole man.
This is the impetus for my writing about him for a publication other than this one. I’ve interviewed the Carnegie Mellon University and University of Pittsburgh graduate. I’ve read his commentary, attended his lectures and seen him on television talking about viruses. I’ve criticized and praised his work (read my thoughts on his general OCON session in Texas and his OCON talk in DC). During a recent visit to Pittsburgh, I asked to interview him and he agreed. We met at his home and conducted a personal interview in which I asked about his thoughts on bioterrorism, childhood, taking risk, health and his heroes. Happily, a local press picked up my story and published the article today. Read my exclusive profile of Doctor Adalja here.
Too often, the doctor, whom Ayn Rand once called the “forgotten man of socialized medicine” long before America’s medical profession was compromised and seized by the state, fades into oblivion amid clamoring, noise and hype. Amesh Adalja isn’t letting that happen to him. Knowing that he’s the doctor to watch for a future of capitalism in medicine, which I’ve known was possible since our first conversation in the Nineties, neither am I.
Just Deserts
Dr. Adaljia has been my go to guy for trying to understand any public health problem for many years now. His information and recommendations when Covid first hit were what kept my wife and me safe. If our leaders had listened to him the consequences of the disease would have been much, much less than they ended up being - with much less loss of both life and freedom. Thanks for featuring him.