Will IBM’s Watson replace doctors, then be hijacked by industry bias?
February 21, 2013 By Steven E. Greer, MD The Atlantic article on IBM’s Watson is triggering rebuttals on medical blogs asserting that human doctors cannot be replaced. I hate to break it to internists,...
View ArticleThe false epidemic of autism
Update March 20 , 2013 The annual CDC autism report is out again, misleading the public about a non-epidemic. Update March 29, 2012 The high prevalence of “autism” was in the news again with a CDC...
View ArticleOp-Ed: A disease called ‘childhood’
Do 1 in 5 NYC preteens really suffer a mental woe? A psychiatry expert argues we’re overdiagnosing —and overmedicating — our kids By DR. ALLEN FRANCES March 31, 2013 In The New York Post Last week, The...
View ArticleThe other casualty from Boston: Old-school TV news
April 27, 2013 By Steven E. Greer, MD On April 15, 2013, at 2:49 PM, two terrorist bombs exploded at the finish line of the Boston Marathon, killing three, and blowing off the legs of many others. The...
View ArticleWill clinical excellence finally be rewarded under ACO’s?
March 21st, 2011 Most of the respected leaders in medicine are indeed also good clinicians. However, their clinical skills were not the most important quality that allowed them to achieve tenured...
View ArticleThe Fox News medical “A Team”
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View ArticleSee one. Do one. Harm one? by Peter Pronovost, MD, PhD
July 11, 2012 By Peter Pronovost, MD PhD I recently cared for Ms. K, an elderly black woman who had been sitting in the intensive care unit for more than a month. She was, frail, weak and...
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