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Second Opinion — 996 episodes
Because We've Always Done It That Way
The Comfort Premium
Solving One Problem, Creating Another
What's Your Pain Worth? The Ethics of Paying Research Subjects
Why Is She Being Blamed for Her Cancer?
Gorillas: The Canary in the Jungle
The Power of a Passport and the Privilege to Leave
We Knew It Was Coming — We Just Didn't Care
A Ship, a Virus, Nine Countries. And We Weren't There. We Built It, And Then We Broke It.
Cut and No Cure - When Doing Nothing Beats Going Under the Knife
Eight Legs, One Bite, Big Trouble
Who Is Qualified to Fix Your Mind?
Smarter Than Two Doctors: How AI Could Change Breast Cancer Screening
The Socialized Medicine We Already Have — And It Works
What Happened to Him? Why We Get Trauma—and Care—So Wrong
Cruel Irony of Medical Expertise
Dyslexia, Shame, and the Myth of Intelligence
Why Competition Doesn't Work in Medicine — And Can Actually Make Things Worse
Why Nurses May Be a Key to Fixing American Healthcare
TrumpRx: What the President Didn’t Tell You
The Boring Secret to Living Longer
Why Dying Needs More Than Medicine
Follow the Money: What Super Bowl Health Ads Really Sell
When Back Pain Strikes: Why Surgery Isn't Always the Answer
The Blue Blood That Saves Lives — But At What Cost?
The Antidepressant Trap: The Story We Weren’t Told
When Politics Replaces Science, Public Health Pays the Price
What My Patients Taught Me About Gratitude
Blessed or Broken? Rethinking Mental Health Across Cultures
Why the President's 'Routine' MRI Is Bad Medicine
Where Goat Births and Human Births Meet
Not That Kind of Doctor
Rethinking the Pap Smear
Why Refugee Food Assistance Is an Investment, Not a Handout
Medicare Advantage or Medicare Disadvantage?
Gabapentin Nation: A Pain Pill's Unexpected Takeover
The H-1B Visa Hike Will Cripple Healthcare in underserved areas
The Hidden Cost of Ink: Tattoo Regret
Tuberculosis: When Having the Cure Isn't Enough
How We Created an Autism "Crisis"
White Coats with Union Cards
When Healers Can’t Heal: The Tragedy of Afghan Medical Refugees
Pay to Publish: The Academic Scam Costing Taxpayers Billions
Paralyzed by Possibilities: The Hidden Danger of Medical Options
From Medical Miracle to Political Target
From Hiroshima to Today: Medicine's Unfinished Mission
When Countries Run Out of Children
The Testosterone Trap
How Medieval Plague Still Shapes Your Health
Why Cutting Medicaid Hurts Everyone Who Works
Cleared for Market but Not Proven to Work
An Incubator: The Rights of a Brain-Dead Woman
The Dying Art of Learning from the Dead
Toilets Prevent Disease—If You Can Find One
The Persistent Dark Legacy of Eugenics
Biden Followed Doctors' Orders – and still got cancer
Unprofessional Behaviors: Catching Bad Habits Early
That Message to Your Doctor Might Come With a Price Tag
Life, Death, and the Cost of Being a Surrogate
Science, Safety, and the Return of Measles
Trust, Talk, and the MRI That Wasn't Needed
The Dangers of a Broken Heart
Regret in Medicine: The Hidden Burden Doctors Bear
One Health, One World, One Essential Partner: USAID
The impact of USAID funding cuts in Uganda
Disparities in “Assisted Aid in Dying”
Vladimir’s Choice – a fable from Eastern Europe
Significant cuts to Medicaid (MediCal) will have a negative impact on us all.
The US pushes the world backward
Will I benefit from that drug?
Do doctors keep up to date with their medical knowledge?
Will AI replace clinicians?
When is a disease not a disease?
How Medical Data Bases Lead to Better Individual Treatment
Thinking of taking one of the new GLP-1 weight-loss drugs?
Listening to music in Refugee Camps
A tale of two kingdoms
The risk of a bird flu epidemic
Does free tuition impact medical student specialty choice?
Drug Promotion to the Public
Doctor, will you pray with me?
The importance of standing tall
As a group, are migrants less healthy?
Did the treatment really work?
Food Insecurity
Task Shifting
Should a mosquito-born illness seen in Los Angeles be of concern?
The marketing of depression
The role of genetics in depression
Protecting Dairy Farms
Endless gun violence
The one disease that has near-universal coverage
Failing to protect volunteers in research studies
Early Hospital Discharge
Is the new test for Alzheimer’s disease worth getting?
What elephant seals can tell us about our health.
Waiting for test results to come back
Unproven Claims for Dietary Supplements
Spirituality – A Missed Opportunity to Improve Health
Remembering Childhood Trauma
Contingency management to end addiction
Pharmaceutical gifts to healthcare providers
Delving into the depths of Dental Care
Changes coming with artificial intelligence
Medical Tourism
The impact of antimicrobial resistance on human health
Improving the environment to improve health
Confirmation Bias
Brain Drain
Those who receive the poorest healthcare in America
The importance of bird flu
Giving and Receiving Bad News
The recurrence of measles in a time of misinformation
Mistreated and Ignored
Batwa indigenous people of Uganda
Prevention in Uganda
Why can’t I prescribe a person a home?
Limited Access to Medical Records
Do grades motivate learning?
The health impact of microplastics
Superstitions and well-being
Diagnosing ADHD
The truth behind spinal cord stimulation
In memory of a medical hero
Home Testing for Cervical Cancer
Excessive Radiation from CT Scans
We don’t have the information we need on prescription drugs
Making Hepatitis C treatment available to all
Prescription Digital Tools
What is a normal part of aging?
The meaning of gratitude
When to report child or elderly abuse
Hospital Culture and End-of-Life Care
Is gambling a medical problem?
Hospital Discharge- given only a few hours to decide what’s next
Do we need black boxes in medicine?
Harm Reduction
Substance Abuse Part 1
Vector Borne Disease and Climate Change
The Popularity of Total Body MRI Scanning
Intergenerational Trauma
The meaning of being on the “BEST HOSPITAL” list
The impact of positive childhood experiences
Emotional Support Animals
Medical Research Volunteers are often poorly informed
The White Coat Ceremony – only a partial celebration.
Religion and Medicine often make strange partners
Ordering drug tests without permission
The new heavily promoted weight loss drugs
The doctor and allocating scarce resources
De-prescribing medications
One factor in picking the best surgeon
What we know about fathers
Cannabis for sleep
Meat consumption and human health (part 2)
The impact of meat consumption on human health
Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare
Is there a good time to stop screening for disease?
Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Testing
Screen for prostate cancer (PSA)
Reducing added sugar in our diet
Artificial Intelligence in End of Life Decisions
Unnecessary Pre-operative testing
Implied Consent
Video recordings of surgical procedures
A rising demand for medical imaging tests
Unacceptable COVID vaccine profits
The continued overuse of antibiotics
Medical issues following a disaster
Organ donations by prisoners
The Need for New Antibiotics
The problems with direct-to-consumer drug advertising
Making three wishes at the end of life
Pay for performance in healthcare
Too many blood tests
The complexity of a second opinion
2022 End of Year Recap
“We got it all”
Putting technology ahead of the evidence
Injustice Disorder
Insulin production in California
Time for a new approach to Alzheimer’s Disease
The Limits of Specialty Care
Microplastics and human health
Monitoring poor air quality
The Care Cascade
The problems with body mass index (BMI)
Code Lavender
Reproductive Coercion
Medical Waste
Recommendations to screen for anxiety in adults
The move toward remote home monitoring
Abortion: States vs the Federal government
The health benefits of Camellia Sinensis (black tea)
The link between soil and health
Variations in the consumption of dairy products
Limitations of the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022
Informing relatives of genetic risks
Anti-depressants needs a major “rethink”
Video recording surgical operations
Wild and domestic pigs
Ignoring monkeypox at our own peril
The harms of too much and too little care
Ageism and its impact on health
Disappointment
A new kind of first responder
The Black Box Around Determining Physician Fees
Sharing information against a family’s wish
The heavy use of antidepressants in women
Friday the 13th
The importance of non-emergency transportation in health care
A One Health approach to tick borne diseases
Why do we still use the ineffective drug ivermectin for COVID-19?
Messages to reach the heart and mind
What do hospital rankings really tell us?
Challenging cholesterol statin use
Those with intellectual disabilities
The care of animals in times of war
The power of the health lobby
A re-emergence of polio
The impact of a changing mental health diagnosis
Learning and Practicing Medicine on Real Patients
Psilocybin: a treatment for depression
Medical prior authorizations for drugs and devices
Orphan drugs to treat rare disease
Can the treatment of serious mental illness be futile?
Health Disparities for those with disabilities
Do friends influence our body weight?
The science behind setting goals
Missing signs of elder abuse
Political promotion of a medicine can be powerful
What is low value health care?
Informing relatives at risk of genetic disease
How do we know if a drug works?
Sex difference in surgical referrals
Written words matter
When to stop antidepressants?
Back scratching: Medicine and drug companies
Daily aspirin to prevent heart attacks
The fallacy of Kubler-Ross stages of dying
Pregnancy, mental health, and more
A new twist for cigarette related disease
Dairy products and health
Practicing What You Preach
Lessons from 9-11
Robots in surgery
Defensive Medicine
Using the MRI to evaluate common back pain
The Legacy of Albert Bandura
Treating loneliness
After a diagnosis of lung cancer
Do people have an ethical right to have cosmetic surgery?
Refugee Mental Health
We need more training slots for medical residents
The double standard of medical marijuana cards
Live-Streaming Primary Care
Estimating the chance of disease
Mistaken approval of Alzheimer’s Drug
Marketing low value products
Using incentives to drive health care
Selecting your type of health care provider
The Promotion of Medical Devices
Involving Palliative Care too late
Protecting victims of domestic violence
Hospitalizing someone against their will
Overtreatment of common infections with antibiotics
The conflicts of interest between academic medical centers and medical industries
The complexities in diagnosing mental illness
The Complexities of Cannabis Use
Unequal access to palliative care
The impact of open medical records
Accuracy of newly approved cancer drugs
Unplanned pregnancies and contraceptives
The health risks of eating chicken eggs
The impact of stigma on sex workers
Treatments that just don’t work
Trauma and adversity can lead to resiliency
Does this treatment really work?
The Shkreli Awards for health care dysfunction and greed.
Entitlement and COVID
For those with chronic pain - does surgery lead to improvement?
Rationing care in times of COVID
How are you doing?
The advantages of wastewater epidemiology
Crossing your fingers – superstitions in medicine
Domestic Violence in times of COVID
Gut Feelings
The benefits of continuity of care
Changing the recommendations for colon cancer screening
The impact of bullying
What happens to all that PPE we discard?
Psychiatric hospitalization as a risk factor for premature death
Lessons from the bedside for American policy makers
Shame and how it keeps us from improving
Inappropriate Hysterectomies
Inappropriate use of the emergency department
In the pursuit of happiness
Food Safety and Security in times of COVID
Variations in hospital cesarean section rates
ACES and Trauma Informed Care Part 2
ACES and Trauma Informed Care: Part 1
The state of Alzheimer Disease in America
The impact of race on kidney transplantation
The prohibition against marijuana in the hospital
Leaving the World Health Organization
A practical steps to protect those at risk of suicide
Changes in thinking about blood pressure
Practice Guidelines the drive toward racial disparities
Medical Leadership and Conflicts of Interest
Racism and Medicine
The dangerous use of off label prescribing in times of a pandemic
Implicit Bias in Mental Health
The right to NOT know a medical diagnosis
200 years of change started by one woman
The origins of the antiviral drug Remdesivir
Fake news and its impact on health
The stigma around COVID can be as dangerous as the virus, says Dr. Wilkes
COVID-19 in Africa
Missed lessons from the Ebola Outbreak
Disease patterns and planetary health
Our behavior changes when we are being watched
A health care birthday
The need to focus on de-prescribing
Do health care providers have a duty to work during pandemics?
There is so much we don’t know about cannabis
Hospital bills can have an impact on our health
Reducing hospital infections
Pandemics vs Epidemics
Vaccines and the N-Corona Virus
Bias can have a large impact on health
Natural Gas and health
Unnecessary lab tests pushed by a vendor
Putting off serious health care treatments
As long as your around your family…
Sending children with HIV to school in Uganda
The plague of Romanian health care
Epigenetics
The impact of gratitude
The risks and benefits of daily aspirin
A tale of two dying patients
Medicine is plagued by miscommunication
The unsung heroes of the American health care system
The necessity of taking supplements to improve health
Is it safe to increase consumption of red meat?
Success at preventing HIV but putting profit ahead of public health
The Unionization of Medicine - part 2
The Unionization of Medicine – part 1
Women’s poor health not only a result of poverty
The impact of poverty on health care in Africa
Missed opportunities at the end of life
Medicine is plagued by conflicts of interest
The impact of work-related stress on DNA
Why does the federal government provide comprehensive care to those with end stage renal disease but not to those with other life threatening illnesses?
What our approach to kidney disease says about us as a nation
Does it matter how your doctor or nurse is dressed?
An ambulance is not a medical taxi
Hospital Price Transparency
Shared Decision Making
Workplace Wellness Programs
A new batch of interns and residents, but some things haven’t changed
When making medical decisions we often act irrationally
Is something wrong with the VA?
Politicians have long held woman’s health hostage
Mental health: An unrecognized problem
Standing up for women
Direct to Consumer Genetic testing isn’t ready for prime time
The need for a just culture in health care
Diversity of our doctors benefits our nation
Changing prescribers' behaviors to stop prescribing drugs that don’t work.
The impact of hearing loss
Rating an Uber Driver
Anti Depressants: new and old
Root Cause Analysis in disasters
Given the same type of bone fracture, are people likely to get the same treatment for pain?
Racial and Ethnic Difference in medication for pain and anxiety (Part 1)
There can be hidden meaning in a medical term
Aging Surgeons pose some complicated problems
Hospital Readmission Rates are too high
Supervised Injection Facilities for those who use IV drug
Shkreli awards for the worst actors in health care
Transgender youth are suffering greatly
STI: Sexually Transmitted Infections: Treatment for two
How do physicians assistants and nurse practitioner compare with physicians on meaningful outcomes?
Medical illness and mental illness are not treated equally
The Eradication of Polio
The new third person in the exam room
Why are people afraid to sign up for government programs meant to protect them?
Limits of Confidentiality
The decrease in life expectancy is far more complicated than just an opioid epidemic
Why do people leave the hospital against the advice of their doctor?
It is time to expand and defend our lane for the public’s good.
With a new divided federal government is there any chance that Americans can expect effective health care legislation?
The Semmelweis Effect
Acute Flaccid Myelitis – what appears to be a new disease that is still surrounded by a great deal of uncertainty.
Trauma Related Care
Conversations around pain
The Mother of All Epidemics
Male circumcision isn’t as barbaric as it seems and for some it has important health benefits.
Measuring Patient Satisfaction
Population based research that benefits ALL OF US
Hospital Rankings aren't all they're cracked up to be
Stigmatized Language
Disease mongering and hypertension
What’s wrong with free medical school?
Preparing for the inevitable oil spill
Mosquitos remain the most common inspect spreading serious disease around the globe
The world's garbage is one health problem
A resurgence of world hunger
Confusion around mental illness
A common sense solution to the opioid crisis
A neglected tropical disease
The science of the nudge
The link between weight and guilt
Too much news of suicide
Impaired physicians are dangerous at work
Is basic life sustaining healthcare a right or a privilege?
Ebola returns and it deserves our attention
The oversized problem of arthritis
Striking in health care
A tale of two extremes
When journalists get it wrong
It's time to start to change some of the silly rules in health care
Sex trafficking
Out of hospital cardiac arrest
Early teenage drinking
White coats against gun violence
The health of the world's adolescents
Limitations of antidepressant medications
How do we get the doctors we need?
Working when sick
Paying doctors to keep costs low
Just because we do the surgery doesn't mean it works
Karla's trip home
Conversations around Pain
Influenza: 2018
Brain death
A chance meeting
Abstinence only education
Bigger is not better
New national recommendations for blood pressure control
Are there health benefits from a daily drink of alcohol?
Medical conditions resulting in unsafe driving
Regret in medicine
A forgotten population with a life threatening disease
Hospital vampires
When it's time to stop getting routine screening tests
Losers when we reduce free access to birth control
Making your wishes known
Advances in health
Confusing language
Do we really want our kids playing football?
Dentistry: the odd man out
Re-emerging sexually transmitted diseases
The 'white coat ceremony'
The difficulty in diagnosing mental illness
Dengue, an illness that is spreading worldwide
The impact of time on kindness
Human microbiome
When a colleague is impaired
The link between teens, marijuana and depression
Cutting the CDC budget
The 'surprise' question
A plant for that may just be the answer
Risk factors for chronic opioid use
Blushing
Drug promotion drives up health care costs
Does technology drive up health costs?
Conscientious objectors in medicine
Poverty as a risk factor for illness
Drugs that don’t work
Pharmaceutical promotion to health providers
Benefits of medical marijuana
FDA permits sales of genetic tests to the public
Prostate cancer screening recommendations
Learning from others
Do we need more doctors?
Bullying patients to get what we want
Our judgmental side
The doubtful case of walking pneumonia
The use of animals in medicine
The making of a healthy nation
Complaining
Right care is good care
The basis of stigma
We need to stop talking
Vitamins and supplements
ACA: A policy that benefits us all
Lying in medicine, Part 2
Telling the truth in medicine
Science in the service of industry
Phone Addiction
Organized medicine and Dr. Tom Price
Healing the healers
Do government funded clinics waste tax payer's money?
Bias directed against healthcare providers
Proposition 61: Time to end pharmaceutical price gouging
The impact of human migration on One Health
Is talk therapy effective for depression?
Ben Stiller's claim that a blood test saved his life
We could do much better delivering women's healthcare
Bias toward heavy people
Sales people in the operating room
Misdemeanors in medicine
What role do letter grades play in learning?
Predicting dementia in people without symptoms
Medical ignorance around medical marijuana
Hospitalists: a new face you've never met before
Zika: A new player in a familiar story
Practice Guidelines: recipes for best practice
Physician Suicide: A Canary in the Coal Mine
Unrealistic Cancer Care
High Cost of Medical Education
Old Habits Die Hard
To Operate or Not?
Difficult Choices at 30,000 Feet
Bias in Medicine
Being Held as a Medical Hostage
San Francisco's Latest Attempt to Reduce Obesity
Good News, a Drop in Opioid Prescriptions?
High Rates of Medical Error Rates Are Probably Incorrect
Physician Suicide: A Canary in the Coal Mine
Declining Teen Birth Rates
Doctors' Right to Choose
The Violent Brain
A Medical Who Done It
Gender in Elite Sports
Physical Pain Linked to Economic Pain
The Heavy Cost of Direct-to-Consumer Advertising
The Extinction of a Vital Measure of Quality Control
The Role of Government in Health
Futility and Doctors in Training
A Never Ending Fight over Doctors' Work Hours
It Can't Hurt to Look!
Zika: Surrounded by Uncertainty
Special Needs
Elephants and Cancer
American Wants to Die at Home
Compassion in Medicine
Tragedy of the Commons
Gifts Are Not Expected
What Constitutes a "Ground-breaking New Drug?"
Mandatory Reporting of Teen Sex
Performance Enhancing Drugs Are No Longer Just for Athletes
Hospital Refunds to Improve Care
Those Pesky Pharmaceutical Advertisements
Biased Dietary Guidelines
Disease Mongering: A Public Forum
Refugees in Germany
It's Time for Your Flu Shot
PET Scans for Early Cancer
A Return of an Old Plague
Stopping CPR
Does Greed Know No Limits?
The Power of Words
A Half-Baked Pie
There's a Great Deal of Meaning in a Name
An Insider's Look at Breast Cancer Care
Again We Find More Is Not Better
Are We Serious about Longer Working Hours?
Mental Health Is Just Not the Same
Antibiotic Overuse
Happy Birthday Medicare
A Disease with No Cause
Two Health Systems That Co-exist
TB in Elephants
Culture and Gender in Sri Lanka
Animal: Human Conflict
Where Do They Get These FDA Advisory Committees?
On the Ground in Nepal
Medico-voluntourism
One Health – New Evidence on the Environment – Body Link
Use of Placebos in Africa
Trade Agreements and Tobacco Products
How Did Evolution Provide for the Human-Dog Bond?
How Do We Tell if Your Doctor Is Up to Date?
Is Government's Job to Protect Kids or Business?
More on Hepatitis C
Why We Don’t Tip the Doctor
Making Assumptions about Mental Illness
A New Treatments for Hepatitis C
Violence in China
Prostate Cancer Screening Revisited
Sex Education a Changin'
Information Is Everything
Drinking Alcohol for Health
A Faulty Diagnosis
The Top 1%
Medications at the End of Life
Does the Flu Medicine Work?
Do You Need to Have Your Cholesterol Checked?
Paper Medical Records: A New Step Forward?
Hospital Care
Two Patients and Two Doctors
The Attraction of Horoscopes
No Rest for the Weary
Finding a New Doctor
Complexity in Healthcare
Treating Heroin Addiction
Are There Certain Things that Are Off Limits for Doctors to Discuss?
Proposition 46
Alarms Are Driving Us Crazy
How Can We Be So Certain?
New Approaches to Reducing Teen Pregnancy
News Round Up
A Modern Medical Mystery
Elderly Issues in Sri Lanka
Suicide in Sri Lanka
Why Doctors Get Infected With Ebola
Is It a Double Standard?
Untreatable Terrible Tummy Pain
Changed by Ebola
Changes Needed in How We Train Doctors
Competition in the Market Place
Summer Dehydration
Pills vs Self Confidence
Treatment for Clogged Ears
How Can We Make Good Decisions with Poor Information?
Less May Be More and Older May Be Better
Playing Nicely in the Sandbox
Stemming the Increase in Gun Violence
Collecting Gone Array
Encouraging People to Be Healthy
Poor Grades for Sex Education
What's in Common Medications?
Do a Few Moments of Discussion Make a Difference?
Female Empowerment
Reducing HIV with Male Circumcision
Improving Milk Production to Improve Health
One Health as a New Concept
Rwandan Genocide Commemoration
Remembering So as Not to Forgot
Follow Up Instructions
Medicare
Rwandan Response to Gay Men
Warm Eggs in Africa
Infectious Diseases Are No Longer the Major Killers in Africa
A Motorized Way out of Poverty in Africa?
Waiting For A Miracle
An African Problem That Should Worry Us All
Culture and Generalizations
National Volunteer Day
Morning Rounds
Unintended Pregnancies in Rwanda
A Roadside Accident in Rwanda
A Small Problem with a Large Impact
Neurology without Scans
Creative Options in Rwanda
A New Model of Funding Healthcare in Africa
Rwanda
Lots of Unnecessary Lab Tests
Conscientious Objectors
Do We Really Need More Medical Doctors?
When Is a Favor More than Just a Favor?
Secretly Taping a Conversation
Permission for Sensitive Exams
Another Reason that American Medical Care Is So Expensive
More is Less
How Many Beds in the Hospital Room?
Futile Care in the ICU
Medical Non-adherence
e-Cigarettes
Change Doesn't Come Easily
How Doctors Think
It Takes Two to Tango
Being a Nice Person
Offering a Prognosis
Cardiac Arrest
Doctors and Drug Company Sales Reps
Pay for Delay
Random Drug Testing for Doctors
Elective Cesarean Sections
Overtreatment Is Killing Us
Treating Fat People
Would We Be Healthier if We Increased Clinical Testing?
Can We Play Nicely in the Sandbox?
Variations in Quantity and Cost of Care
Mother’s Day and Caring
Secret Shoppers in Healthcare
What Is a Mental Illness?
Risk in a Crazy World
Less Is Often More
Emergency Contraception
Back Pain
Stigmatizing Language
Inattentional Blindness
Substance Abuse and New Health Insurance Laws
How Hard to Push?
Conflict of Interest Rules for Drug Company Interactions
Politics, Guns and Public Health
Abortions, Pregnancies and Roe v. Wade
Prescribing drugs never proven to work
Drug prices are going through the roof!
Doctors' Hours
Liberties versus Public Health
Disease Mongering
Research on childhood illnesses
New Hospital Discharge Rules
Stress
The Impact of Still Births
Intellectual Property Rights
Tropical Diseases
Doctors' Salaries
Medicine Driven by Incentives
Patenting Genes
CNN Has Forgotten Its Mission
Rationing Health Care
Frequent Flyers
Is the Physical Exam Necessary?
Food Insecurity in America
Internet Pornography
Sleeping with Snorers
Olympic Syndrome
Closet Psychiatrists
Offering CPR when not indicated
CPR in the Hospital
Testing for Alzheimer's Disease
Caution in the Back Yard
Vitamin D for Preventive Care
Spending Healthcare Dollars Abroad
Hospital Translation Services
Prostate Cancer Screening
Traditional Birth Attendants in Africa
Advice from behind the Counter
Training More Doctors
Getting to the Hospital in an Emergency
Hearing Impairment and Aging
America's Top Doctors
Foreign Trained Doctors
Rabies in California
Regardless of the Dose the Drug is Ineffective
The Greening of Medicine
Drug Company Fraud
Caregivers
Do Doctors Need Shopping Carts?
Drug Shortages
Low Salt Recommendations
Hard Fought Battles for Women
Disclosing Medical Errors
Searching for open access to medical research
Students in Foreign Lands
Information Can Be Like a Pill
Deafness and Disability
A Technology Arms Race
Biting the Hand that Feeds You
Emergency Contraception for Teens
When a Patient Decides NOT to Know
Choosing the Best Hospital
Difficult Discussions
Teenage Drivers
Back Pain and Placebos
Why Do the Japanese Live So Long?
Why Are People Going to the Doctor Less Often?
Sound Recommendations about Prostate Cancer Screening
New Federal Conflicts of Interest Regulations
Home Blood Pressure Monitoring
Nurses Go on Strike
Outlawing Female Circumcision
Expedited Partner Therapy
Medical Scribes
Be Careful about Unnecessary Genetic Tests
It's Not the Person, It's the Pill
Is the Doctor's Duty Only to the Patient or to Society as Well?
The Quest for Beauty
A Giant Step Forward for Women's Health
Doctors Don't Deal with Uncertainty
New Research Findings with Some Obvious Results
New rules to reduce medical resident fatigue
The Pro-Pharmaceutical Opinion of the Supreme Court
A listener is angry his doctor asks him to make medical decisions
Limiting Care
Big Problems with Bias
A Sudden Hit to the Head
Vermont’s Bold Move on Health Care
A Couple of Odd Causes of Prescription Drug Abuse
Medicine as a Team Sport
Doctors' Data and the Supreme Court
Nurse Midwives
Music and Medicine
An Ounce of Prevention May Still be Too Much
Cat Scans Also Cause Radiation
Health Problems from Nuclear Exposure
Hospital Discharge, Part II
Hospital Discharge, Part I
Race and Medicine
An Infection We Often Don't Think about in the Elderly
Making Complicated Medical Decisions
Trying to Become a Female Surgeon
Physicians Talking to Parents about Guns in the Home
PTSD in Returning Soldiers
Incentives to Get Doctors to Use a Particular Drug
Two Drugs of Unequal Cost
Under-Treatment of Pain
Is There a Link between Economic Hard Times and Our Health?
A Pain Pill That Should Have Been Banned Long Ago
Does a Doctor's Religion Make a Difference?
Do healthy people need to take a multiple vitamin?
Preventive Health in People with an Advanced Cancer
Why Do We Still Make Residents Work 80-Hour Weeks?
Paying for Drugs for Rare Diseases
Teen Pregnancy
Birth Control Pills and Sexual Activity
In Vitro Fertilization – a Remarkable Discovery!
What Needs to Go in the Medical Record?
Memory Loss
The Loss of Altruism
Reporting Child Abuse
Literacy and Health
A New Diagnosis of a Genetic Condition
US Ranked 9th in End of Life Care
Drug Companies' Priority: Make Profits, Not Protect Health
Foreign Trained Health Doctors Working in the US
Rethinking Medical Education, Part II
Summertime in Medicine
Refusal of Care
Sexting
Public Attitude toward Healthcare Technology
Colonoscopy: Does the Time of Day Matter?
Genetic Testing of College Students
I'm a little bit worried....
When Can a Parent Say Enough is Enough?
Are we any safer with new airport scanners?
The Dangers of Four letter Words
An Obligation to Participate in Research
Swine Flu-One Year Later
It's All the Result of TV
Tomorrow's Doctors
Pay for Performance
The More You Do the Better You Get
Is the Use of Placebos Always Unethical?
The Ugly Truth About Homeopathy
Under-treatment of Sickle Cell Pain
Emergency Contraception for People 17 and Older -- but Not Males!
Incidental Findings
Have Family Doctors Given Up on Families?
The last breaths of life
When People Don't Follow Advice
Learning about New Drugs
Effectiveness of Tamiflu
Advanced Dementia Is a Terminal Illness
Don't Just Do Something, Stand There!
The Politics of Science
Controversy around Mammograms
The Low-down on Picking Up Diseases Early!
Looking for Disease in All the Wrong Places
Chaperones during the Exam
Futile Care
Do You Know Any of These People?
Rebelling against Mandatory Vaccines
How Can We Better Remember to Take Our Medication?
Creating Better Doctors?
A New Life for a Sluggish Vaccine
Misleading BMI
Why Do We Still Have Tooth Decay?
A Note from the Doctor
Screening for Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms
What Is Basic Healthcare Coverage?
Following Your Moral Compass
Is a Therapist a Psychotherapist?
Overriding Computer Systems
Amenity Units at Hospitals
Care That Is Unlikely to Provide Benefits
Thinking Globally in Tough Financial Times
Difficult Doctor Encounters
Prisoners Released with HIV
Can nurses substitute for doctors?
CPR out of the Hospital
Rating Doctors
Swine Flu 101
Paying People to Get Healthy
Respecting Patients' Culture
Abstinent Promises
Who Owns the Medical Record?
Journals, Editors and Intimidation
Private Hospital Beds
Normal adolescence: a disease worth treating?
Preventing the Spread of AIDS in Africa
Barrier to HIV Prevention in Zambia
One Perspective on AIDS in Africa
When Should You Be Able to Have a Baby
Why Can't Doctors Just Talk to Each Other?
When People Don't Follow Advice
Primary Care Medicine: An Endangered Species
Is There Such a Thing as a Blockbuster Blood Test?
Generics versus Trade-name drugs
Drug Abuse in the Elderly
Moral Courage
Harmful Effects of Radiation
Variation in Health Care
Free Drug Samples
Weight Bias
Proposition 4: Parental Consent for Pregnancy Termination
Differences in Requirement of Pain Medication
Human Papilloma Virus Vaccination
Super-Human Doctors
A Patch Work That Works
Sexual Health of Seniors
Depression at the End of Life
Letting Go at the End of Life
Pressures to Breast Feed
Is denial always harmful?
How Does the Bill Get That Big?
More on Rationing Healthcare
Rationing Healthcare
End-of-Life Discussions are NOT Just for Cancer Patients
Why Do New Medicines Work Better Than Older Ones?
Whose Side Is the FDA on?
Fluorescent Bulbs
AIDS in Rural India, Part III
AIDS in Rural India, Part II
AIDS in Rural India
Pre-operative Testing: For Whose Benefit?
Screening for Dementia
Humor to educate about drug advertising
Weight Loss and Drugs
Banning Direct-to-Consumer Advertising in Canada
The Effect of Race on Healthcare
Traditional Medicine
Patient's Right to Be Informed about Trainees
Anti-Depressant Medications May Be Less Effective Than We Think
Why Is Some Alternative Medicine Still Alterative?
Disability Parking
When People Don't Follow the Doctor's Advice
Substance Abuse and Detection
Does Everyone Really Need to Lower Their Cholesterol?
Telephone Medicine
The Hidden Curriculum in Medical School
Bereavement can Cause Physical Problems
Permission for Clinical Research
Hospitalists
Buying Influence in Developing Countries
Immigrants and Healthcare
Medicinal Hugs
Admitting Uncertainty
Physicians as Role Models
Does It Matter What the Doctor Wears?
Caring for Celebrities
Dying in Prison
Genetic Testing for Breast Cancer
Screening for Lung Cancer
When We Don't Know the Patient's Preference
Payment for Taking Medicines
The Consumer Reports of Medications
Confidentiality Even in Death
Unfit to Drive
Practice Rules Improve Care
Promises Not Kept
A Severe Case of 'Bill-itis'
How Often Do You Need to Return to the Doctor?
Choosing a Good Doctor
Whose fault is it when the doctor's advice isn't followed?
Is Ethnicity Medically Important?
More on Prostate Cancer; Is One Treatment Best?
Getting Tested for Prostate Cancer for Father's Day
Do Not Sit Silently
Is Being Tired an Illness?
Disease Mongering
Reassurance
Oxycontin
Feeding Tubes
Blaming the Victim
Treating Cholesterol
Genetic Discrimination
Banking Cord Blood
Religion in Medicine
Emergency Room Overuse
Tackling Obesity
Case Managers
A Request for an MRI
The Electronic Medical Record
Keeping Up Appearances
Behind the Curtain
Genetic Screening in Teens
Compassionate Care for the Elderly
Drug Overdose
Saying 'I'm Sorry'
Social Determinants of Disease
Difficulty Sleeping
Disease and Illness
Prison Research
Avoiding Kidney Surgery
Going Abroad
Screening for Dementia
Beliefs
Undertaking Risk
Trouble Reading
Are We Getting Our Money's Worth?
Women and Heart Disease
Drug Companies
Keeping Up with the Times
Disposing of Unused Prescription Drugs
Direct To Consumer Advertising
Medical Marijuana
Oversight at the FDA
Asking for Organs
FDA Labels
Phase One Studies