Month: October 2020

As the world remains transfixed and at times pessimistic about the prospects for progress in defeating the novel coronavirus, which causes COVID-19, medical history has taught us to be hopeful that another therapeutic miracle could be around the corner. Nowhere is that more evident than the strides made to mitigate and […]

Your medical record—those documents that describe your life in organized medicine—can be short or long, simple or complex, bland or revealing, depending upon your medical history. And with the ever-growing presence of electronic medical or health records, your personal health history is becoming, in theory, more transmissible and vulnerable than […]

In March of 2020 my blog, Should We Really Panic About the New Coronavirus COVID-19, raised a lot of hackles among my readers. Many thought I was minimizing the dangers of the novel virus and perhaps not taking it seriously enough. At the time, I am embarrassed to say, I closed […]