Happy Greens to Help You Heal

We always get to hear: Eat more dark leafy greens - good for your health and well-being!! To get excited about this is a different matter en...

Invisibility and Lesbian Health

One size does not fit all. Even when we evaluate trends within a given group, we need to deduce what are the individual traits of the person...

WHERE TO BEGIN? Figuring Out What You Don't Even Know That You Don't Know?

It is pretty easy to feel comfortable with what we know. It is equally comfortable (especially in an insatiably curious person) to be comfor...

ASSESSING RISK AND STILL PROMOTING HOPE FOR THE FUTURE

In Medicine, we are taught to assess risk. To identify factors that make a condition more or less likely. It is akin to a detective novel. U...

Congressional Wrangling Over Proposed Insurance Exchanges Takes A Nasty Turn

Wrangling Over Proposed Insurance Exchanges and Standard Health Care Benefits Takes a Nasty Turn Barely recovering from the last congression...

Should a Student be Disciplined for Being Disrespectful on Facebook?

In discussing ethics with medical students and physicians, it's common for someone to ask: "What does the law say?" I typicall...

Hand Washing,Teamwork, and Professional Ideals

Hand washing protects hospital patients from healthcare-associated infections. But on average, adherence to hand hygeine standards is under ...

Make a Rainbow Donation this February! (And get matched!)

Breast, ovarian and cervical cancers affects hundreds of thousands of women every year. Many of whom are our sisters, mothers, nieces, aunts...

Complementary Medicine in Australia - an ethical analysis

400 scientists and doctors have attacked the 19 Australian universities that teach, or give degrees in, complementary and alternative medici...

Educative Journalism in Massachusetts

Apropos yesterday's post, this editorial from today's Boston Globe is interesting. I've interlaced comments of my own in bold i...