retired doc's thoughts

 Extracted from an article  from AANS regarding traumatic brain injury (TBI) data from 2012: Defensive backs in American football are a...

What do we know about head trauma in high school and college football? Mild Traumatic Brain Injury ( mTBI) encompasses the clinical entit...

Bringing in grief counselors seems to be a fairly common occurrence. We hear about it when a tragedy, such a shooting at a school, occurs. W...

The Charter ( Medical Professionalism in the New Millennium.A Physician's Charter) did not deal with just the important relationship of ...

This blog is for the most part about medicine and the practice of medicine so quoting extensively from a economist's blog might seem off...

The economist and historian Dierdre McCloskey put it this way ( my paraphrasing). If some one glanced at what happened in the twentieth cent...

The term exercise-Associated Collapse (EAC) as used by Dr. Tim Noakes of Cape Town South Africa refers to athletes collapsing after complet...

Case in point  is in regard to hormone replacement therapy (HRT) for menopausal women.It has not been easy to get that right. The stylized...

I recently read that hospitalists have a term for one type of failure to communicate namely "information voltage drop" This refe...

 I am beginning to think that the answer to the question in the heading is no.Thinking about a article in the NEJM published at the time of ...

Health Care Renewal in the Sept.22,2006 posting referenced comments by the editor of The British Medical Journal,Leona Godlee, suggesting ...

Plato envisioned a utopian society ruled by philosopher kings,leaders with ideas. Brilliant and knowledgeable, logical and devoted to the go...

The politicization of medicine is cogently  discussed  by Dr. Thomas Huddle. See here for an abstract of his article. First, with the pu...

Thomas Sowell laments the choice that we are likely to have in the upcoming presidential election.In a recent commentary entitled "G...

In adults electrolyte issues have traditionally been the arena in which internists ( and I guess now mainly hospitalists) earn their fees. ...

Apparently the roofers union believed the administration's claim that if you like your health care insurance plan you can keep it. Now t...

Diastolic heart failure had been for the most part a diagnosis of exclusion.Symptoms and physical signs of heart failure (Hf) and an elevate...

I argue it may have. Being a physician and knowing what I know about physicians , the good and the less good, I absolutely hate to go to a...

Thomas Sowell tells us that the first rule of economics is: We live in a universe of scarcity and there will be trade-offs. and The fir...

Stimulated by my own frustrating inability in recent years to run as far on my weekend "long runs" as I could just 3 or 4 years ea...