retired doc's thoughts

A report is out regarding a government study that demonstrated patients do not always take their medications as they should.Earlier work h...

Kudos to these folks who tried out a shorter version of the CPR course and found it worked better in terms of retention of concepts ( and l...

Even since I heard the term " sarcopenia " I began to worry about this muscle loss that accelerates as we get older. I began to co...

I have written before about the changes in house staff medial education in the post duty hour restrictions era and evoked some critical c...

The American Board of Internal Medicine ( ABIM ) is proposing still another piece of sanctified paper for internists to strive for and jum...

CDC has recently made available its "Yellow Book". This is free and is on line and is an invaluable source of authoritative info...

I evoked a good deal of rather strong comments when I wrote about the ACGME mandated resident work restrictions. Let me go on the record a...

The July 9, 2007 issue of AMANEWS (subscription required) features a two page piece on the eugenics movement in the United States, highligh...

I attended a dinner "CME"talk a month or so ago. Across the table was a physician who I knew as an oncologist with whom I had pati...

The randomized clinical trial proudly sits atop the evidence based medicine (EBM) epistemological hierarchy. The RCT's ability to minim...

I have held for a long time an erroneous idea of the risk of disease transmission aboard airplanes.I envisioned the passenger cabin as some ...

The NEJM (June 28,2007) has two commentaries regarding the fall out and continuing analysis of the effects of the changes in house officer ...

I was thumbing through a older issue of the journal, Chest and by looking at the summary and title of a particular article nothing much seem...

Dr. David Eddy authored a series of articles in JAMA ( Eddy DM . Rationing resources while improving quality.How to get more for less.JAMA...

I do not want to believe that oncologists would give chemotherapy( CMT ) to patients who they do not believe would likely benefit simply bec...

The journal of the American College of Physicians ( ACP ), the Annals of Internal Medicine, in 2006 featured a five page article in which th...

The spin-off as well as the spin seems endless in regard to the Avandia issue.Nissen's NEJM article catalyzed various reactions many o...

A long standing dogma is that seafood allergies and radiologic contrast material (RCM) allergies are both due to an iodine allergy and there...

The American Thoracic Society (ATS) and the Infectious Disease Society of America (IDSA) agree that the empiric therapy of mild community ac...

The recent flurry of scientific comment, speculation, 6 o'clock news type hype, accusations about everyone concerned-except perhaps pati...