Oh, We Pill-Popping Americans. We Just Don't Seem to Learn Very Fast, Do We?
Here's an eye-opening newspaper ad, circa 1886. We kinda like that these miracle meds would have cured us of our daily "dread." And who...
Another Week: Another 'Third World Assassin'. But Who Really Cares?
An immigrant heart specialist who lived and worked in southern Kentucky has been sentenced to prison after being convicted of surgical...
Halloween and ER Staff? Oh, My!
On this Halloween night plenty of ERs are staffing some seriously spooky characters. Whether they are "healthy" for the patients is in...
10 of the Worst Doctors of the Year 2017?
Over the course of any 12-month year we expose hundreds and hundreds of seriously crappy physicians. In no particular order, we thought...
Loneliness, and the Loss of the Doctors' Dining Room
We like to keep things fair & balanced around here. So here's a terrific essay by a terrific physician who happens to know a thing or two...
911 Rescue? You Tell Us. Who's Going to Rescue the State of California?
It’s the start of the night-shift for the medics of Paramedics Plus. Already this rescue team is running “Code 3" - lights and sirens,...
Is It Sunday? Time For Some Polemic Lexemics . . .
If the lowest form of humor is the pun, might the limerick reign king, bar none? What's Wrong With a Few Stray Calories? A young foodie...
USC Will Pay Out $215,000,000 in Doctor-Sexual Predator Case
In Los Angeles the University of Southern California school administration has announced they will to pay $215,000,000 to former patients...
