Revolutionary Thought
Bike riding is a lot like life. You spend a lot more time pulling yourself up hill than coasting down hill. So the key to happiness? Enjoy the climb!
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Revolutionary Thought
I am on vacation in the warm April sun in southern Florida this week. Time to reflect on one of the best things about exercising on a bicycle.
You create your own breeze! -
Gorillacillin and the Tragedy of the Commons
Was I right to prescribe an inferior medication to my patient?
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Should Her Doctor Consider the Cost of Her Care?
Carol Jefferson’s right lung x-ray looked the color of a February storm in Northern Minnesota—a blizzard of white making bone and lung invisible. Her lung was “whited out” because she was experiencing a dangerous combination of tumor and infection.
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Can You Trust Your Doctor to Give You the Right Pill?
Susan Holmgren was resting in her hospital bed, a mere 72 hours removed from her first heart attack. She was out of the woods according to her doctors, with her heart having only sustained minor damage. But the next one-the next heart attack-could be worse. Almost 75-years-old now, Holmgren needed to do everything in her power to make sure that her first heart attack would be her last.
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Misimagining the Unimaginable
“Misimagining the Unimaginable” – Health Psychology
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Muslim Nose Jobs and Gossipy Doctors
A scandal is rocking Egypt, now that word has spread that those unsightly bandages on Anwar el-Balkimy’s face weren’t there because he got beaten by a masked gunman but, instead, because he had had (horror of horrors!) plastic surgery—a procedure which many people in the conservative Islamist party that el-Balkimy belongs to considered to be “sinful.”
But the real scandal? His lies were brought to light by the doctors who performed the procedure, physicians who were so aghast at his brazen falsehoods that they unhesitantly violated doctor-patient confidentiality.
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Discussing Life Expectancy With Older Patients
In a recent post, I laid out a question to readers — about whether and how physicians should discuss the prognosis among patients whose shortened life expectancy is the result of their already long lives…(Read the rest and view comments at Scientocracy)
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Do You Want Your Doctor to Tell You When You’re Going to Die?
Paul Kostick’s DNA was under attack and his fate was sealed. Forces beyond his control were hacking large pieces of genetic material off the ends of his chromosomes. Should his doctor tell him how long he has to live?
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Thought of the Day: Can someone stop Gail Collins from making "dog on the roof" jokes, please!
Is it possible for Gail Collins, New York Times op-ed columnist, to write an article about Mitt Romney without making a joke about him, as she describes it, “strapping his dog to the roof of his car”?
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