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The Ivory Tower and Poisoned Wells
Years ago the Ivory Tower was a place where scientists cloistered themselves to do research without bias and results were published in peer-reviewed…
Oct 22, 2023
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August 2023
Why You Should Read "Pregnancy Your Way"?
At long last, after three years of work, our book Pregnancy Your Way is published and available on Amazon. Why do we think this is worth celebrating? On…
Aug 27, 2023
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Evidence-Based Medicine And The Outliers
While I understand the reasoning behind evidence-based medicine (EBM), common sense tells us that no rules are going to correctly fit a situation 100…
Aug 20, 2023
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RACs and the Quality of Care
I’ve written before on the nonsense of trying to make a recipe card define quality heath care for patients, emphasizing that expert knowledge is not…
Aug 14, 2023
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Antibiotics and the River Styx
Just try to get a post-surgery antibiotic. It’s easier to cross the River Styx. I understand the reasoning behind the notion of “antibiotic stewardship…
Aug 6, 2023
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July 2023
Vax Anomalies
Because of the verbal storms between vaxxers and anti-vaxxers, I have gone to the trouble to justify my two cents on the vax-antivax war with a separate…
Jul 31, 2023
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Sent to a Rural Hospital to Die
Rural hospitals are struggling in many areas, in part because the Critical Access Hospital (CAH) designation was created by the Centers for Medicare and…
Jul 24, 2023
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Where Have All the Stories Gone...
There is a lot of emphasis today in everyone telling their own stories. Writing coaches emphasize the need for authors to put their stories in their…
Jul 16, 2023
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We Don't Understand Black Boxes and Neither Does AI
The excitement over deep learning and neural networks is well deserved, but the notion that artificial intelligence (AI) in the form of “deep learning…
Jul 9, 2023
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Physician Perspective Outside the Box
The tension between the practice of science and art has been with us for a long time, but with every new technological advance, the tension ratchets…
Jul 2, 2023
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June 2023
Vampires and Memes
I wrote this review of Allucquere Rosanne Stone's book many years ago when the book was first published. As I struggle with the adversarial nature of…
Jun 25, 2023
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Attracting Physicians to Rural Medicine
“American medicine is probably the best in the world, but they rush too much and do too much unnecessary surgery.” Dr. Bohdran Hordinsky (1991)
Jun 18, 2023
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