DB'S MEDICAL RANTS

Internal medicine, American health care, and especially medical education

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Is obesity genetic?

We all know people who seem to eat anything and everything yet stay slim. We know others that constantly fight their weight.

NY Times on NJ Doctors

The Doctor Is Out in New Jersey. The Times tries in this editorial to balance the controversy. They miss entirely.

Preventing breast cancer

This represents an advance, a very important advance. Hopefully, such disclosures will improve the doctor patient relationship.

New Jersey game of chicken

As I wrote yesterday, the only answer is personal responsiblity. The book’s author comes to the same conclusion.