My relationship with my Dad was not the easiest: we were so alike that all of his flaws were magnified in my estimation and bugged me dispro...

A few days ago, several news outlets reported on Newt Gingrich's unfortunate turn of phrase about our President. In a speech in Georgia ...

Ideas are a little bit like a pimple: There needs to be enough pressure that builds up to cause one to erupt into consciousness. So it has b...

Recently I had the occasion to tell my 10-year old an old secret: until I was into my forties, I had a strong belief that the rest of the pe...

Here is a weird thought: Our current food production is closer to the Soviet collectivization than to the free enterprise model. Outrageous?...

I thought this post, originally published last May, was worth revisiting apropos  this paper that came out in this week's Archives of ...

It is not a secret that I dislike tobacco companies. Intensely. I do not see the point of allowing them to sell a product whose value is all...

My friend Ivan Oransky runs a highly successful blog called Retraction Watch ; if you have not yet discovered it, you should! In it he and h...

Sorry, folks, but I have been so swamped with work that I have been unable to produce anything cogent here. I see today as a gift day, as my...

Here is another gem from the House of Representatives: a bipartisan bill to increase Medicare reimbursements to community oncology practice...

My mother-in-law is a typesetter. She will not read a book unless it is not only appealing in its content, but also pleasing to the eye. Whe...

Reading this vintage paper on C diff from the Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, I came upon this irresistible conclusion: Pr...

Fascinating, how in the same week two giants of evidence-based medicine have given such divergent views on the future of quality improvement...

#5:  Redefining compassion: "A spiritual technology" #4:  CMS never events: Evidence of smoke in mirrors? #3:  The rose-colored ...

There has been some interesting buzz in the blogosphere about where evidence-based guideline recommendations come from, and I wanted to add...

Yesterday brought quite a bit of press coverage to a small biotechnology company in Cambridge called Vertex. All this attention was spurned ...

The other day I did a post on semi-recumbent positioning to prevent VAP. The point I wanted to make was that an already existing quality me...

This is a TEDxUN talk by Krista Tippett. It is fantastic! If you are in a rush, just go to around minute 10:00 or so. But really the whole ...

#5:  Reviewing medical literature, part 5: Inter-group ... #4:  Intervention in ICU reduces hospital mortality, bu... #3:  CMS never event...

Let me tell you a fascinating story. In 1999, I was still fresh out of my Pulmonary and Critical Care Fellowship, struggling for breath in t...