No, I’m not going to weigh in on gender equality in restroom access. But ‘Whatever, just make sure you know what you’re talking about’...

Let me just start off by saying (heading illustration notwithstanding) I’m not comparing legal nurse consultants to monkeys at a...

© Paramount Pictures When Star Trek  hit the airwaves in the 1960’s it was a sci-fi sensation. It quickly gained a dedicated following...

General Lawton Collins (right), US Army Chief of Staff, visiting the 1st Commonwealth Division with General Mark W. Clark (left),...

Okay, let me start right off by stating for the record that I don’t have a lot of experience with discrimination. I’m a white guy, after...

What do you think about the way the opiate crisis is being handled? No one will argue that we are having an epidemic of opiate overdose...

In 1910 a gent by the name of Silvanus P. Thompson published a book with the surprising title of ‘Calculus Made Easy’. It was the...

copyright Twitter screenshot Steward Medical Group is starting to fold. This is one of those news noshes that initially surprised me, but...

Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson: Hippocrates refusing the gifts of Artaxerxes, 1792 “First, do no harm”. It’s a litany that is heard...

"How many licks?" Image via Murakami-Wolf Productions If I’ve heard it once, I’ve heard it a thousand times: “That guy in room 203 has…...

Picture this: You have a health problem. A chronic one, that requires a regular supply of prescription treatments, whether they be...

I’m guessing most folks out there have heard the story of the Good Samaritan found in the New Testament. In case you haven’t, or you...

‘Those who ignore the past are doomed to repeat it’. We’ve all heard it. It’s an old adage, but the dusty cobwebs on its edges don’t make...

Everyone knows med school is hard. The difficulty is almost legendary, and to a certain extent, for good reason. But this has led, I...

(c) Warner Bros 1993 I grew up watching the original Star Trek – the one with Bill Shatner & Co. At the time I thought it was pretty cool...

The short answer is, a lot, if it’s about something they deal with every day. Or something they’ve personally encountered or suffered...

I’ve been through a lot of transitions in my life. Some have been good: going from living with parents to being a homeowner, from being a...

As a family practice physician, I feel that giving patients access to their records via online patient portals has been a mixed blessing....

Opium has a long history of use for medicinal purposes. As far back as the Neolithic age it was being used for anesthesia, general pain...

I grew up on my grandparents’ farm in rural Ohio. After high school I worked in polymer factories for fifteen years because I wasn’t sure...