Little 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 ArticleHalf of Dr. Oz’s medical advice is baseless or wrong, study says
December 19, 2014- The Washington Post reports, “And now, his work has come under even greater scrutiny in the British Medical Journal, which on Wednesday published a study analyzing Oz’s claims along...
View Article45 years ago, a humble man from Ohio landed on the moon
July 19, 2014- By Steven E. Greer, MD Forty-five-years ago tomorrow (July 20th, 1969), Neil Armstrong became the first human to step onto the moon, with his poignant and profound proclamation, “That’s...
View ArticleWe need intelligent doctors, not memory savants
February 15, 2014- Opinion, By Steven E. Greer, MD The ability to get a joke, or comprehend that a sarcastic comment was meant as humor, requires high-level abstract thinking. Memorization does not. In...
View ArticleHarvard professors feel the impact in their pocketbooks of the ACA law that...
November 8, 2014- By Steven E. Greer, MD Probably no other university in the country was more influential in helping President Obama pass his ACA law than Harvard. Prominent faculty, such as David...
View ArticleLetter to the Dean of Harvard medical school about conflicts of interest
Jeffrey Flier, MD Dean, Harvard School of Medicine December 27, 2014 Dear Dean Flier, The KevinMD blog post that you praised on Twitter is horribly misguided. He essentially pointed out in the blog...
View ArticleA modern medical wonder finishes second in the U.S. Open golf tournament
June 15, 2014- By Steven E. Greer, MD 34-year-old Erik Compton finished tied for second in the United States Open golf tournament. That was a good accomplishment by any standard, but it was also a...
View ArticleNY Times reports that CMMI “research” is junk science
February 3, 2014- By Steven E. Greer, MD The Healthcare Channel was the first to report in 2012 that the new CMMI, created by the ACA “Obamacare” law, was nothing but a pork project designed to deliver...
View ArticleEzekiel Emanuel pens essay urging Americans to skip the annual physical exam...
January 9, 2015- By Steven E. Greer, MD Ezekiel Emanuel, MD, the brother of former White House Chief of Staff Rahm, and of Hollywood power-broker Ari, has once again demonstrated an utter lack of...
View ArticleBig Time College Sports is not the worst thing about American universities
January 10, 2015- By Steven E. Greer, MD I was chuckling at an irrelevant essay in the NY Post complaining about how college football is a farce to the student athlete model. That story is so old, so...
View ArticleThe Netflix Late Reviewer: Boyhood (will win the Oscar)
January 17, 2015- By Steven E. Greer, MD “Boyhood” is the 2014 film by Director/Writer/Producer Richard Linklater that started filming in 2002 and was completed in 2014, twelve years later. It follows...
View ArticleThe deadly risks of TAVR being downplayed to patients by hospitals
January 18, 2015- By Steven E. Greer, MD On July 20th, 2011, the FDA convened an advisory committee to help it determine whether to approve the first ever TAVR device called the Sapien, made by Edwards...
View ArticleFootball head injuries down after rules change
Update January 20, 2015- The PBS news show Frontline has been tracking the number of head injuries in the NFL. The new rules changes that try to eliminate head to head tackling seem to be working....
View ArticleIndustry conflicts arise at PCORI threatening any real comparative...
February 7, 2014- By Steven E. Greer, MD The Patient Centered Outcome Research Institute (PCORI) was created by the PPACA “ObamaCare” law in 2010. Well-funded with approximately $3 Billion over ten...
View ArticleWhat Steve Jobs would have invented if he had lived longer
September 17, 2014- Charlie Rose asked Apple CEO Tim Cook what they plan to do after the Internet and cell phones are all played out, and he had no idea. He might want to read our story, below, from...
View ArticleA modern medical wonder finishes second in the U.S. Open golf tournament
June 15, 2014- By Steven E. Greer, MD 34-year-old Erik Compton finished tied for second in the United States Open golf tournament. That was a good accomplishment by any standard, but it was also a...
View ArticleReview: Super Bowl 49: Two bad teams with a bad outcome
February 2, 2015- By Steven E. Greer, MD Super Bowl 49 has left a bad taste in the mouths of most viewers. The winner, the New England Patriots, was widely believed to have been coached by a serial...
View ArticleTold you so. Rand Paul’s secret Looney Tune side revealed.
February 2, 2015- By Steven E. Greer, MD People have asked me my opinion of the Republican field for 2016 and I have told them that Dr. Rand Paul seems pretty electable now, but my experience tells me...
View ArticleThe Anthem hack reminds us how electronic medical record security is not...
February 5, 2015- Op-ED by Steven E. Greer, MD The large health insurance company now called Anthem, formerly known as WellPoint (which owns Blue Cross plans, adding to the confusion of nomenclature)...
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