retired doc's thoughts

I was puzzled as to why someone would verbally attack Dr.Peter Hotez and threaten him with physical violence. What problem could they have w...

Echocardiogram prices at at least one large megtropolitan hospital system in a large southern city,have accelerated impressively over the la...

From Leamers book on Maco humans are pattern seeking story telling creatures. Economics cannot provide the level of certitude that the ex...

It (my general political-philosophical set of beliefs) really did begin with Ayn Rand, first reading "Capitalism, the Unknown Ideal ...

Note this blog post is the first of a joint authorship with chatgpt and me. Can recent innovations in health care delivery be explained in ...

Three  basics emerge as we enter year three of a pandemic that has claimed 900.000 lives in the United States"  Covid 19 is a respirato...

With the publication of an article from Japan involving study of 303 cases of encapsulated angioinvasive FTC the current ATA risk classifica...

Fron reading the Amercan Thyroid Association;s thyroid cancer guidlines I had assumed that the notion that TSH supression to reduce risk of ...

This is a redo of an earlier essay with minimal editorial change. I repeat it now with a nagging thought that "that ship has sailed som...

In a study by Cipriani et al (1) in 2011 a pathology review of 66 follicular thyroid carcinoma (FTC) by three pathologists the diagnosis of ...

First do no harm,primum non nocere and do what what is right for the patient.Those were the core principles taught to me and my medical scho...

 Willl longtime endurance exercise really preserve ( help preserve) a compliant left ventricle (LV) and mitigate the age related stiffening ...

In recent weeks there have been numerous internet compliants about ChatGPT.Some of them are regarding erroneous references or citations, I h...

I knew from the first day of medical school that this doctor business was not going to be easy. We were told how many newwords and and conce...

After all the cochrane group says that in regard to establishing scientific truth the "systematic review of all relevant randomized cli...

Half of the patients labelled as having  heart failure are designated as "diastolic heart failure" or HFpEF,  the currently prefe...

The title question was raised in an article published in the Journal of the American Medical Association in 1995 by dr. Edmund D. Pellegrino...

Is value subjective? Is value derived from the labor going into a good or service? Do business owners exploit their employee by stealing the...

 In this essay I will describe how the evaluation of a medical problem seems to work in at least one large not for profit big city hospital ...

The overly long tittle  refers to Kenneth Arrow's information asymmetry argument against fee for service in health care? Does "Baum...