The Complexity of Diagnostic Errors: A Doctor’s Reflection
I will continue to spotlight this issue because it stimulates a positive passion about our ability (as physicians) to make a difference.
A potential difference between statins
We know that some statins lower LDL more than others. Some raise HDL more than others.
Balancing Risks and Benefits in Patient Care
Having periodic allergic rhinitis, I have used nasal steroids with good effect. However, I am one of the 15-20% who develop nose bleeds from nasal steroids
Holt on quality
We are striving to teach physicians to optimize their practice, however they know that optimal practice in 2003 may change in 2005
The Challenges of Incomplete Data
Time for a little game. I will provide an excerpt from a case. I will not provide the link until tomorrow.
Sunless sunburn
You can try to figure it out. Feel free to post your guesses in the comments section. The case is quite instructive.
The Lancet – Astra-Zeneca controversy
I doubt that this story will surprise anyone. The pharmaceutical industry functions to make money for investors.
The South Beach Diet
Of course we need good prospective studies to be sure. I would probably pick this over the Atkins’ diet given the information I currently have.
Remembering Robert Palmer
I hate to see people my age dying of preventable disease. We should make good health decisions. We only get one body, and we should pamper it!
We enter the retainer medicine arena
If any reader would like to write a dissenting view, given coherence and logic, I will gladly publish that view as a rant