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 […]
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Your Medical Record: Is it Truly Yours?
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 […]
Read MoreCOVID-19 Revisited 7 Months Later
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 […]
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