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All areas of study and action have their virtuoso. That person who is ‘first among equals’; George Washington was most famously, known by this phrase. So too in medicine, there are great specialists and then there are others who are acknowledged as being just a slight cut above those of highest caliber. Here in The …
Despite this, there is a grass-roots effort to discredit these medications based on the concerns that they cause a multiplicity of side effects including dementia most importantly. These has been very little signal among users that these issues are developing, and to add to the scientific understanding, the American Heart Association undertook an extensive review …
I have an amateur interest in aviation so I am following the MAX 8 concerns with great interest. Among the issues raised with the MAX 8 is the interaction of automated technology and imperfect data input. Simply put: An excellent but completely automated system can be undone by imperfect data input, resulting in automatic ‘corrections’ …
The international measles outbreak has rightly stirred concerns among the general public in the US, questioning their own protection and immunity against measles. Do I need to worry? Here is the answer: If you were born before 1957, then you did not get vaccinated…but you did get the measles with near certainty as there was …
The internet has plentiful resources for an array of topics in psychiatry, but like most of you, I often find a Google search less than helpful due to adds and other methods that game the searcher and prevent them from finding, fact-based resources of information. As I’ve indicated in the past, among the ways to …
We are often asked by patients to assist in locating facilities for their family member who needs memory care; either assistance in placement for the longer-term or for short term respite. Fortunately, one of our patient’s daughters provided us with an excellent summary and review and I wanted to share that with you. Please look …
Although my patients know that Cathy Kurth, AD is the audiologist we recommend the most, many patients still are not inclined to use a hearing aid for a whole host of reasons. With the FDA approval of the BOSE HEARING AID, one of those impediments to getting a hearing aid has been eliminated, in that …
A recent report from The Washington Post about researcher Piero Anversa’s falsified heart research at Harvard Medical School is a tragedy. Not only has this researcher duped the general scientific community, his 31 scientific papers suggested a new area of research for young cardiologists, and those who are following this path and chasing a red …
The internet is full of untruths, especially when it comes to comments and concerns about statin therapy. There is a grass-roots effort by the non-medical community to impugn the CHOLESTEROL HYPOTHESIS, a foundational concept in cardiovascular medicine that hold that higher level of cholesterol (LDL/bad fraction) increases the risk of heart disease and lowering this …
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