1. On bad news
   
2. Palliation, paternalism and patient autonomy
   
3. Time is not on your side
   
4. The President, fitness and health
   
5. The Health Care Crisis
   
6. Why I love medicine
   
7. Doing the right efficacy studies
   
8. Perversions of meaning
   
9. obesity an American battle
   
10. prevention: an opportunity yet problems
    

1. Golf Therapy
   
2. In obesity, we are not alone
   
3. Wisdom on McDonald's and trans-fats
   
4. Exercise motivational tips
   
5. Get moving!
   
6. Brody on diet
   
7. More on 1 hour of exercise
   
8. The IOM on exercise and diet
   
9. Get moving redux
   
10. Activity is good!
    

1. FTC on weight loss
   
2. Busting the ill over medical marijuana
   
3. More on the 2nd McDonalds suit
   
4. Coding is impossible
   
5. Another suit over fat and fast food
   
6. Fighting for ephedra
   
7. The Scarlet Letter - redux
   
8. A crazy law
   
9. The final HIPAA guidelines
   
10. Patient record privacy update
    

1. The House and malpractice
   
2. Ohio docs protest
   
3. Commentary on the crisis
   
4. Nevada Tort Reform
   
5. Solving the malpractice crisis
   
6. More on Bush and malpractice
   
7. More from Bush on malpractice
   
8. Malpractice reform - or at least a hope
   

1. Nutritional information
   
2. The dangers of walking
   
3. Point well made
   
4. Ronald or Jared
   
5. Drug classes
   
6. Supersize
   
7. Legal evolution
   
8. Fuggetaboutit
   
9. Sad but true
   
10. The nursing shortage is real
    

1. Duncan Sheik - Daylight
   
2. Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
   
3. October Road
   

1. Controlling drug costs
   
2. NY Times on Medicaid drug purchasing
   
3. Another patent fight
   
4. About the pharmacy protection law
   
5. OTC or not
   
6. Thoughts on pharmaceutical developments
   
7. More on drug companies and costs
   
8. PhRMA against governors
   
9. More on celebrity drug hawking
   
10. Full disclosure?
    

1. Medicare hope
   
2. The Medicare drug debate will not go away
   
3. Doctors and politics
   
4. The health care crisis
   
5. The politics of a Medicare drug benefit
   
6. Medicare reform still likely
   
7. Medicare drug plans - a discourse
   
8. No patient's rights bill this year
   
9. No surprise - Senate deadlocks
   
10. A good political idea
    

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. testing
   
2. Technical Problems
   
3. Technical Problems
   
4. FTC on weight loss
   
5. Busting the ill over medical marijuana
   
6. Marijuana, common sense, and the government
   
7. Screen for osteoporosis
   
8. A cardiologist visits a 'health supplement' store
   
9. Controlling drug costs
   
10. Interpreting the prostate studies