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.

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

Navigating Complex Treatment Decisions

If any reader would like to write a dissenting view, given coherence and logic, I will gladly publish that view as a rant