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. On the myth of spot reduction
   
2. Stretching before exercise does not help
   
3. Today's motivational link
   
4. Interesting book review
   
5. Our national obsession
   
6. Weight loss
   
7. A tale of weight loss and more
   
8. Today's weight loss motivation article
   
9. Eating fast and smart
   
10. Defeating excuses to not exercise
    

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

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

1. Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
   
2. October Road
   

1. OTC or not
   
2. Thoughts on pharmaceutical developments
   
3. More on drug companies and costs
   
4. PhRMA against governors
   
5. More on celebrity drug hawking
   
6. Full disclosure?
   
7. OTC Prilosec - one step closer
   
8. Gifts
   
9. Pharmaceutical company lawyers
   
10. Tobacco and the pharmaceutical industry
    

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. On the myth of spot reduction
   
2. How we perceive diet
   
3. Believe data not urban myths
   
4. Commentary on the crisis
   
5. Legal evolution
   
6. Stretching before exercise does not help
   
7. Debate on vitamin supplements
   
8. OTC or not
   
9. Thoughts on pharmaceutical developments
   
10. Is this guy serious?