1. The Health Care Crisis
   
2. Why I love medicine
   
3. Doing the right efficacy studies
   
4. Perversions of meaning
   
5. obesity an American battle
   
6. prevention: an opportunity yet problems
   
7. the care and feeding of residents
   
8. Resident Work Hours
   
9. Retainer medicine - pros cons and implications
   
10. Concierge or retainer medicine - considering the why?
    

1. Today's weight loss motivation article
   
2. Eating fast and smart
   
3. Defeating excuses to not exercise
   
4. Common sense on weight control
   
5. Eat more fiber
   
6. Golf does not equal fitness
   
7. We do not respond to exercise equally
   
8. Exercise motivation
   
9. The anti-marijuna and weight loss
   
10. How much water each day?
    

1. A crazy law
   
2. The final HIPAA guidelines
   
3. Patient record privacy update
   
4. More on fast food lawsuits
   
5. More on suing fast foods
   
6. Another view on the War on Drugs
   
7. The war on drugs
   
8. Bad news for insurers, good new for trial lawyers
   
9. I hope they both lose
   
10. Lawyers against obesity
    

1. Nevada Tort Reform
   
2. Solving the malpractice crisis
   
3. More on Bush and malpractice
   
4. More from Bush on malpractice
   
5. Malpractice reform - or at least a hope
   

1. Fuggetaboutit
   
2. Sad but true
   
3. The nursing shortage is real
   
4. Lawyer humor
   

1. Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
   
2. October Road
   

1. More on celebrity drug hawking
   
2. Full disclosure?
   
3. OTC Prilosec - one step closer
   
4. Gifts
   
5. Pharmaceutical company lawyers
   
6. Tobacco and the pharmaceutical industry
   
7. The new PhRMA rules
   
8. Pharmaceutical companies and celebrities
   
9. Drug company rebuked
   
10. Counterdetailing
    

1. Medicare reform still likely
   
2. Medicare drug plans - a discourse
   
3. No patient's rights bill this year
   
4. No surprise - Senate deadlocks
   
5. A good political idea
   
6. Will the fat lady sing?
   
7. Senate persists on drug plan
   
8. No surprise - Senate deadlocks
   
9. The latest on the Medicare drug benefit
   
10. Senate passes a drug Medicaid bill
    

An academic general internist comments on medical issues and the current state of medicine.

I reserve the right to be blatantly opinionated; you should take the right to criticize me!!

Current hot issues:

• Malpractice crisis
• Resident work hours
• Pharmaceutical industry
• Obesity and fitness

1. Cartoons
2. Criticism
3. Fitness and weight loss
4. Legal issues
5. Malpractice
6. Medical Rants
7. Pharmaceutical industry
8. Politics
9. Sunday issue

1. Today's weight loss motivation article
   
2. More on celebrity drug hawking
   
3. Stress and age
   
4. We need data on herbs
   
5. A crazy law
   
6. Comic relief or wisdom
   
7. Eating fast and smart
   
8. Full disclosure?
   
9. Retainer medicine or luxury medicine
   
10. Defeating excuses to not exercise