Why We Don't Want To Get Rid of Medicare-Our Best Tool for Health Care Reform

Why We Don’t Want To Get Rid of Medicare-Our Best Tool for Health Care Reform The pressure is on for federal budget slashing and of course ...

"By Blood" by Ellen Ullman

I've just finished reading a remarkable novel: By Blood by Ellen Ullman. I'd read in a review that the story is told by a disgraced...

APRIL IS DISTRACTION AWARENESS MONTH! Imagine that you are blindfolded and driving 55 miles per hour. It will take about 4.5 seconds for you...

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Returning to Practice After Loss of License

Two years ago I wrote about Dr. Brian Kwetkowsi, a primary care physician in Rhode Island, who lost his license for having a sexual relatio...

The Ethics of Choosing Wisely and Practicing Efficiently

This month the American Board of Internal Medicine Foundation (ABIM) joined with nine medical specialty societies, each of which released a ...

Making Doctors more Ethical

The Association of American Medical Colleges ( AAMC ) has redesigned its Medical College Admission Test ( MCAT ) for the first time since 19...

Anne Sexton's Therapy Tapes

After arguing in a recent  post that poet Anne Sexton's therapist did the right thing in releasing tapes of her therapy to Diane Middle...

University of Wisconsin Physicians Disciplined

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported yesterday that the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health disciplined 20 phys...

Euthanasia and suicide

On March 29 Charles Snelling killed Adrienne, his wife of 61 years (the mode of her death has not been publicly revealed) and then shot hims...