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I often have patients that see me with strange symptoms. I listen…I examine…but the symptoms don’t fit into any of the pigeonholes of medical science, in fact, they often don’t make much sense at all. They are real…in the sense that the patient is experiencing the symptoms, but there is no evidence that anything …
What the heck? What am I talking about? Actually…I’m having a little fun with acronyms that are so common in medicine by spelling out the letters as opposed to just using the acronyms ZE & PPI. Z.E……are the initials for Zollinger-Ellison Syndrome, and rare condition of persisting and recurring excess stomach ulcerations due to massive …
The passing of Justice Scalia is a call to arms for older men. What do I mean? Well….reading all of the news accounts, it appears that Justice Scalia died from sudden cardiac death, which is classically the first manifestation of heart disease in 1/3 of people with heart disease. He is the classic person to …
It was President Eisenhower’s heart attack during office, in 1955, that resulted in the US declaring a war on heart disease, just as Beau Biden’s death from cancer has inspired President Obama to declare a war on cancer this year. Back in 1955, there was very little that could be done to prevent and treat …
Dr. Scott Sporer is a Chicago-area orthopedist who does knee and hip replacement. He just came to my attention when a patient told me about her experience getting her knee replaced by him, back home. We have a lot of excellent physicians here in The Valley. Many of them are listed on our Recommended Doctors …