retired doc's thoughts

To appropriately counter balance the propaganda aimed at convincing everyone of the virtues of a single payer system, med students should ha...

Even as a medical student I enjoyed what was known as professional courtesy.I developed the med student disease of having every disease we r...

The landscape is so different. When I left training to spend two years in the Army, I had spent 6 years in post medical school training. One...

In the 1960s the idea that a physician would play a dual role, ie patient advocate AND stewart of "society's scarce medical resourc...

As I reflect back to the years of medical school and house officer training, several motifs emerge. I was taught to believe what I was lear...