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Evidence-based Medicine, Type 2 Diabetes, & the Reign of Confusion

Evidence-based medicine (EBM) has gotten a lot of attention in recent years, as have questions pertaining to the importance of intensive glucose…

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Why America is Hooked on Drugs

As any medical advertising writer knows, you don’t need much to turn a sow’s ear into a silk purse. For example, I…

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United States of Pharma: Why Drug Marketing Rules American Healthcare

I often hear medical and pharmacy directors at public and private health plans express frustration over how physicians prescribe. These payers feel forced…

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Spare the Rod, Spoil the Child – How the Prescription Pad Replaced the Paddle.

Fifty years ago, if a child misbehaved, he got a good paddling. Today, society frowns on slapping and spanking kids, with corporeal…

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The Rise of Cholesterol as a Risk Factor

I don’t plan to use this blog to debate cholesterol risks or statin benefits. I do, however, want to talk about how…

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In Brain Chemistry We Trust – The Gospel According to Pharma

The rise of the biopsychiatric model of mental illness If anyone has doubts about America’s faith in a Higher Power, all you…

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Scientific Publishing– Color Me Cynical

When it comes to scientific publishing, I am a true-blue cynic. Medicine and marketing go hand and hand. Whether reading a published…

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