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

1. Weight loss
   
2. A tale of weight loss and more
   
3. Today's weight loss motivation article
   
4. Eating fast and smart
   
5. Defeating excuses to not exercise
   
6. Common sense on weight control
   
7. Eat more fiber
   
8. Golf does not equal fitness
   
9. We do not respond to exercise equally
   
10. Exercise motivation
    

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

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

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.

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9. Sunday issue

1. Get your flu shot!
   
2. More on smoke free New York eating
   
3. The Scarlet Letter - redux
   
4. PhRMA against governors
   
5. A debatable issue
   
6. Supplements are questionable at best
   
7. Weight loss
   
8. More on preventing diabetes
   
9. A libertarian's view of smoking
   
10. A tale of weight loss and more