retired doc's thoughts

Now 12 days since Hurricane Ike and still no power to my part of the Houston area. So no blogs for a while and for a short while to come. I ...

Every time I mention there may possibly be some problems with the work hours restriction regarding house officers, I receive a barrage ( OK...

Sometime in the 1980s the term "work-life balance " ( which I will abbreviate as "wlb" to save key strokes) began to see...

A tip of the blogging hat to DB's Medical Rants for this reference . This article by Ian Shrier and others from McGill investigated ...

Dr. Jonathan M. Edelman , Director of Scientific affairs for Merck, has offered this reply to the charges leveled in the Annals of Internal...

A number of e-mails and other internal Merck documents became fair game for analysis and critique when they became available as part of the ...

Enticed by pizza and promotional pens and mugs, enchanted by attractive, tricky drug reps and hoodwinked by cleverly crafted medical article...

In a recent Medscape edition (July 1,2008) we find a disturbing essay by a practicing academic pediatrician who expresses concern about som...

Dementia prevention and statins are again in the news with this study . Previous studies offered contradictory data , some showing an bene...

Comments by an Hawaii physician,called to our attention by the prolific Sandy Suracz , should do more than raise a few eyebrows.I have char...

I welcome attacks on the dangerous and muddled headed concept and practice of P4P. There is so much wrong with it that I hardly know where t...

I have ranted before about those who think and want everyone to think that medical care is far too important to be left to uninformed, selfi...

Recently, I wrote that if you wonder what a single payer for medical care in this country would be like, all you need to study is how Medic...

Several years ago, Dr. Antonio Gotto , noted lipid researcher, jokingly suggested putting statins in the drinking water. While we are not q...

Everyone who is a physician or is training to be one,everyone who is a patient or who might someday be one (that really is almost everyone)...

Recently, I referenced two clinical trials published in the NEJM which compared a new oral anticoagulant, rivaroxaban , with the low molecu...

I had my hopes that ximelagatran would be the replacement for warfarin. That did not happen because of liver toxicity problems with the dru...

DB Rants takes on the issue of "what will happen to the Internist" in this entry and more and more internists are offering a pess...

Fears of ozone depletion and the purported health effects of that should be soothed somewhat with knowledge that the CFC containing broncho...

The June 6,2008 NEJM published a very important editorial . This is one should be handed out to medical students and house officers. This i...