Archive for December, 2013

Research radiologists at Boston’s Massachusetts General Hospital evaluated the details and accuracy of colon imaging, i.e. colonography or virtual colonoscopy with no laxatives during preparation and having it compared with the traditional colonoscopy.

I came to learn of a very disturbing decision made by Court of Appeals on an issue to do with drug marketing. Two judges gave an insane ruling determining that drug representatives who promote uses of a drug ‘off label’ are exercising their freedom of speech

Recently, more than 520 of our physicians starting sharing their notes on office visit with patients. All general pediatricians and primary care doctors and other few doctors within dermatology, pediatric subspecialties, pulmonology

The story of a 94 year old woman with Alzheimer’s

At her old age of 94 years, she was suffering from advanced Alzheimer’s. She was thinking that it was in 1954 and she asked me if I wanted some tea. Well, that’s not really a bad memory considering that she was lying in the hospital bed

Leaders of public health should always be ready to tell people things which they don’t want to hear and storytelling is an effective strategy to pass the message across.Certain things that should be brought to the attention of people whether they want to hear are like…