Monday, December 29, 2014

A Medical Perspective on the Negligent Homicide of Eric Garner

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I am not going to get into the larger sociopolitical issues surrounding the death of Eric Garner.  I don't want anything to distract fr...
Saturday, December 13, 2014

Is Obesity more like Crime, Cigarettes, or Sex?

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Obesity is a massive problem.   35℅ of America is obese .  Democrats are worried that their prized social welfare programs will collapse un...
Friday, December 12, 2014

The Lost Glory Days of General Practice, and a Vision of it's Resurrection

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I'm on my family medicine rotation right now.  One of my preceptors is ~80 years old, and went through medical school in the 1960s.  He...
Friday, October 3, 2014

Ebola, Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital, and Medical Errors

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Ebola is in the United States !  Everybody (please don't...) panic!  Quarantine all Texans!  Though that might be a good idea anyway (j...
Friday, September 26, 2014

Informed Consent is a Chimera

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This post  by Paul Levy got me thinking about informed consent, and a case I saw recently got me to take a little time and write about an i...
Monday, July 28, 2014

The Coming Downfall of Medicine: Scientific Corruption

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Some recent news about a(nother) scandal in the pharmaceutical industry has led me to post on something that is critical to the future of ...
Thursday, June 12, 2014

America Doesn't Have a Gun Violence Epidemic- We Have a Poverty Epidemic and an Outbreak of School Shootings

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Many  people are  talking  about a gun violence  epidemic .  This is understandable, in light of what seems like a never-ending stream of ...