retired doc's thoughts

A high school friend once told me that one of his football coaches told him that wind sprints were important and you were only as young as y...

I have written before about what I believe the wrong headed and dangerous views expressed in the Physician Charter.See here. http://mdredu...

Sokomoto et al (1) investigated the relationship between adequacy of warfarin dosing and severity of stroke in patients with atrial fibrilla...

The vast majority of patients with an EKG pattern of LBBB have structural heart disease,that is myocardial disease as opposed to disease onl...

A few years ago I posted a piece about the effects of antioxidants on GI tract cancers.There was a reported small increase in Relative Risk ...

Here is a quote which to me seems may have high titer of deep insight.(my bolding) "In many areas of medicine, particularly those rela...

It is the 20th  anniversary of the birth of the hospitalist.A recent article describes what was presented as a fairly widespread feeling amo...

Dr. James Galbraith is the son of John Kenneth Galbraith and here the apple falls very close to the tree. See here for his  thoughts publis...

 When something is being payed for with other people's money, more will purchased. This is also true if you merely think someone else...

In 1985, RJ Northcutt studied 20 males endurance athletes that were recruited from a Scottish Harrier's club. All were  older than 45 ...

Anyone who has practiced medicine for more than a week, or observed its practice as a medical student may recognize the truth of the followi...

When I contact some medical practices by phone that is exactly what seems to be the situation. Case in point- When recently  I developed a ...

Remodeling of the heart will occur whether you do anything about it or not. What you do about it may  determine what type of remodeling you ...

The risk assessment of an individual.that is determining a person's risk of a given disease has been described a peculiar,elusive,ambigu...

A post  hoc analysis (1) of the TRENDS study concluded "significant temporal variability of AF burden exists when measured continuously...

Much has been written about the issues of what is the point beyond which exercise is no longer health promoting but rather damaging to the h...

In regard to what has changed most in the last near half century some would answer medical advances, mainly in diagnostic techniques and the...

The following two paragraphs are from a viewpoint commentary  entitled  "Resolving the Tension between Population Health and Individual...

Following the 1975 echocardiographic study by Joel Morganroth of endurance athletes and resistance exercise athletes and several cross secti...

Will a few hours of aerobic exercise per week practiced over along period of time (years) prevent the ventricle from becomes stiff and could...