The Connecticut shooter was influenced by violent video games
Opinion December 16, 2012 By Steven E. Greer, MD Adam Lanza watched violent mass murder video games (I assume this story is accurate, which is a big assumption given all of the incorrect reporting on...
View ArticleTrends of 2012 in the healthcare sector
December 17, 2012 By Steven E. Greer, MD It’s that time of the year again. We have reviewed the past 12-months of The Weekly Summary looking for patterns and trends that might carry forward into 2013....
View ArticleThe most important stories in healthcare 2012
December 24, 2012 By Steven E. Greer, MD 2012 was quite similar to 2011 and the previous five years. Times were tough as the global economic depression upended the traditional business models of...
View ArticleI’m so old, that:
January 9, 2013 By Steven E. Greer, MD (Courtesy The Healthcare Channel) After the JPMorgan healthcare conference, I realized how much has changed. I’m so old, that I can remember when: Rituxan used to...
View ArticleTip of the Week: Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, and how to cure it
January 23, 2013 By Steven E. Greer, MD Thanks to a few medical doctors, most notably Robert Lustig of UCSF, it is becoming known that humans can develop fatty liver disease even if they do not consume...
View ArticleHow to eliminate head injury in football
Update February 2, 2013 The NFL commissioner has announced plans to require proper shoulder pad tackling, and penalize helmet spearing tackling, per our essay below. Update: June 7, 2012 Thousands of...
View ArticleReview: “Unaccountable” by Marty Makary, MD
October 3, 2012 By Steven E. Greer, MD Johns Hopkins general surgeon Marty Makary, MD, MPH, takes on the corporatization of the $2.7 Trillion dollar American healthcare system in his book...
View ArticleWill 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 ArticleBook review of “Fat Chance” by Robert H. Lustig, MD
February 9, 2013 Book Review by Steven E. Greer, MD How did our ancient ancestors evolve from being pure meat eating carnivore hunters into grain fed farmers, and which diet is healthier? With nearly 7...
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 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...
View ArticleLittle guy challenges Dr. Oz over copyright infringement and wins
September 12, 2013- By Steven E. Greer, MD Under certain circumstances, copyrighted text or video content can be used by others without permission or payment if it falls under the “fair use” laws....
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 more we know, the more unnecessary President Bush’s stent seems
October 16, 2013 By Steven E. Greer, MD A recent short article in an obscure Washington, DC wonky journal triggered national media when it asserted that President George W. Bush’s (43rd President)...
View ArticleDid the GOP shut down the government just to please a special interest...
October 19, 2013- By Steven E. Greer MD The United States government was partially shut down for more than two weeks in October. Conservative caucuses of House and Senate Republicans led the charge, or...
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