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All Hands on Deck
Nov 28, 2017
This troubled world needs all of us.

VSED
Aug 14, 2017
Voluntary Stopping of Eating and Drinking

Advance Directives
Aug 20, 2016
Grace in Departure

We Must Change
Jul 21, 2016
Reader letter: Our psychological selves must evolve and quickly to prevent environmental catastrophe.

Women's Cancer Screening Update
Feb 1, 2015
Important Changes in Cancer Screening for Women

Raw Foods
Oct 5, 2014
Feedback on "Big Brain Cooking"?

Check-In Instead of Check-Up
Aug 5, 2012
Newsletter: Check-In Instead of Check-Up

A Daughter's View of an Old Fashioned Doctor
Jun 13, 2012
We get mail in response to our "Just-Right Medicine" newsletter. (Not too much, not too little.)

Medications and the Elderly
Apr 18, 2012
Our Check-List for the Elderly is followed-up in the media

PSA: Thumbs Down
Jan 15, 2012
Could this be the wooden stake for routine PSA screening in healthy men? If so, you'll enjoy the same level of health at much less cost.

Health: A Product of Learning
Jan 12, 2012
Health is not something that happens to us or escapes us. Much of the health we enjoy results from what we learn as the days go by.

Weight and Meth: Danger Will Robinson!
Jan 2, 2012
Excess weight has as effect on the brain similar to methamphetamine. Both are habits equally hard to break.

Manufacturing Mental Illness
Dec 28, 2011
The way we evaluate and treat emotional distress probably increases our toll of suffering.

Keep Your Eyes Open
Dec 27, 2011
If you still think all your decisions are rational, think again.

How Doctors Die
Dec 8, 2011
The end of life: expensive, distressing, often painful. How do doctors themselves deal with it?

Nursing Home: the Round Trip Ticket
Dec 6, 2011
For some people, nursing homes remain a great bug-a-boo. That's because for many years, for many people, there were few choices. Now there are.

Legal Meth
Dec 4, 2011
Sell methamphetamine without breaking the law. Welcome to the ambiguous world of modern pharmacology.

Antibiotic Overuse
Nov 26, 2011
Faith has no place in the use of antibiotics (or any other medical procedure). Antibiotics have the power to kill rogue bacteria that are trying to kill us. Antibiotics also have the power to kill us--either through side-effects or through unintended damage to our microbiological ecosystem. Our primary care medical system needs to use antibiotics much less often and with more attention to the correct matching of antibiotic type and dose to the clinical situation.