In many medical offices, patients have to starve themselves … for eight to twelve hours prior to getting annual labs drawn. But does this make any sense? As patients know, I urge plenty of skepticism when it comes to recommendations that a doctor might make....
The next time you’re in a doctor’s office…and someone wraps a cuff around your arm to check your blood pressure, you’ll have to thank a nice Jewish doctor named Samuel Siegfried Karl Ritter von Basch. He called his device a sphygmomanometer,...
After nearly 14 years in operation, we’ve accumulated some statistics … that may be of interest. Health statistics are one, but obviously an imperfect, measure of health care quality. In sharing some of our data, I would point out that physicians practicing...
“What is a super bug and how do you …” make one? The term “super bug” always reminds me of the 1972 Black exploitation film Super Fly, starring Ron O’Neil. The movie’s trailer featured the tagline, “He’s got a plan to stick it to the man!” Back then,...
