Anfractuous Notes

Death panels are back... ...if they ever existed in the first place. But the concept lives on in the minds of Obamacare's political o...

Had to go to Russian consulate in New York, and have some observations. The crowd, anywhere from 5 to 40 people, waits outside. It is ple...

A fantastic collection of maps showing a tremendous spectrum of our lives. Play here .

HIV depletes the number of CD4 + T cells, and causes AIDS by essentially erasing the immune system. To enter a T cell an HIV viral particl...

If you were like me snowed a bit this past President's weekend, you might have found yourself drawn to the second season of "House...

My biggest fear is for the code pager to go off while I am in the restroom. It did go off angrily followed by the overhead PA system anno...

According to the latest diet_vs_death research, nuts are good. On the heels of the PREDIMED strudy (AKA Mediterranean diet study) that show...

An interesting report published in NEJM revealed several public misconceptions regarding Medicare: more than 60% of respondents think th...

Virtually all conversations about health care with my friends leaning Republican break down along the issue of personal vs social responsib...

I have recently had a discussion with a friend of mine regarding international rotations during post-graduate medical training (A.K.A. resi...

Cleveland Clinic CEO: Health Reform is “Already in Place”

The first day of internship fell on solstice. There is probably some symbolism in it, something about fertility. Ten days of orientation w...

Many blue moons ago I used to have a free eFax account to receive occasional faxes. Then eFax went rouge on its freebie crowd, yanked all f...

In the May 5 column , the Times Nicholas Kristof cites Anheuser-Busch, the company that makes the Budweiser and the bestselling beer in th...

Indian Health Services (IHS), an agency within the Department of Health and Human Services, was created in 1955 to broader effort to refo...

For the next four or five weeks I am working at Gallup Indian Medical Center (GIMC) in Gallup NM , on the border of the Navajo Reservation...

In a cramped curriculum of medical education, there is hardly enough room for anything not directly related to learning how the human body w...

Being in the center of medical education, in fact its object – a medical student – affords a unique freedom that often does not survive as ...

"There are qualities that have been ascribed to the stereotype of Jews that are also ascribed to the stereotype of women who step out ...

The Washington Post published this sweet article Monday, April 9th (which I got via Arts and Letters Daily's RSS , an aggregator of g...

They call it Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University. Mouthful of proper nouns and eponyms. Well, th...

Back from Cleveland where I went for the second look weekend. To second-look what? When was the first? you may ask. The first one was durin...

"[Dr. Virginia Apgar] even carried a scalpel and a length of tubing in her purse, in case a passerby needed an emergency airway -- and,...