Dr. Donald P. Condit, MD, MBA is an orthopaedic surgeon specializing in hand surgery in Grand Rapids, Michigan. After graduating with a BS in Preprofessional studies at the University of Notre Dame he attended the University of Michigan Medical School. At the Seidman School of Business of Grand Valley State University his emphasis of study was economics and the ethical allocation of scarce health care resources. With his family, he serves annually with Helping Hands Medical Missions in El Salvador. He also volunteers at Clinica Santa Maria and for Project Access, for the uninsured, in Kent County. He is the author of A Prescription for Health Care Reform and is a Clinical Professor of Surgery at Michigan State University.
Recent Articles by Donald P. Condit
Politics, social justice and the non-negotiables
Vice President Joseph Biden’s run-in with the Catholic bishops over the “facts” of Obamacare once again revives the important question of how voters sort out the
An unconscionable threat to conscience
In May 2009, President Obama delivered the commencement address at the University of Notre Dam
A sugar coating for the bitter pill of ObamaCare
Remember Mary Poppins singing, “A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down in the most delightful way”?
Obamacare and the threat to human dignity
Since President Obama signed the Patient Protection Act into law in March 2010, the acrimonious debate on this far-reaching legislation has persisted.
Health care rights, and wrongs
As Speaker Nancy Pelosi promoted passage of Sunday’s health care reform bill, she invoked Catholic support.