Author: Pius Kamau

Pius Kamau Doctors are human, so are nurses, respiratory therapists and lab workers. Health care givers have families who love them and depend on them for sustenance. They have communities who see them in pain and commiserate with them. Their unique role in a society’s life is the management of “the health care system;” a…

Pius Kamau The Middle Ages surgeon-barber cut hair, amputated limbs and bled patients.  Bleeding was popular; the one sure method of curing maladies that was physically visible. Trained physicians considered themselves superior and above surgery. The profession of barber surgeon eventually evolved to today’s surgeons, the profession I belong to. We carry malpractice insurance because we…

Pius Kamau Given our supremacist past, the Colorado connection to the attempted insurrection of Jan. 6 is very worrisome. Watching the arrest of fellow citizens for trying to breach the Capitol reminds me of Gore Vidal’s United States of Amnesia. We may forget our past, but it keeps revisiting our present. In 1995, Coloradoan Timothy…

Pius Kamau To vaccinate or not to vaccinate against the COVID-19 virus is to me a non-question. After 2020, a grim year of death and devastation, I look at the rollout of the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines as a godsend. I am overjoyed that hospital workers and residents of nursing homes – people most exposed…