Review: “16 Acres”: How the biggest lightning rod in the world got made
September 20, 2014– by Steven E. Greer “16 Acres” is an excellent documentary that describes the politics behind the rebuilding of Ground Zero, and why it has taken so long. Produced by Mike Marcucci,...
View ArticleKen Burns series on FDR helps me discover my own history
September 21, 2014- By Steven E. Greer, MD I watched with fascination all of the episodes of the Ken Burns PBS series about the lives of Teddy, Eleanor, and Franklin Delano Roosevelt when, midway...
View ArticleWill President Hillary Clinton end fee-for-service?
September 22, 2014- By Steven E. Greer, MD At the recent cardiology trade show called the TCT, held in Washington, DC, 2016 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said this, “The fee-for-service model,...
View ArticleThe Dallas hospital administrators who botched Ebola were likely criminals,...
October 19, 2014- By Steven E. Greer, MD The mainstream media has correctly reported on the numerous missteps made by the Dallas Presbyterian Hospital when the first Ebola case, Thomas Eric Duncan,...
View ArticleSurgical masks do work to prevent the spread of flu
October 1, 2009- By Steven E. Greer, MD Are billions of people around the globe foolish for wearing facemasks to protect against the flu? A portion of the mainstream media seems to believe so. They...
View ArticleWhat you need to know about ISIS
October 29, 2014- By Steven E. Greer, MD I saw the most recent episode of the PBS show Frontline that explained how ISIS rose to power. I was alarmed to learn that this is a very real and local threat,...
View Article“You’re telling me this now?” Why the news is suddenly critical of statins...
Opinion: February 19, 2012 By Steven Greer, MD The CBS news show “60 Minutes” made waves with a story asserting that the antidepressants taken by millions of Americans daily are actually no more...
View ArticleMedical and surgical offices need to adopt Apple Pay ASAP
October 21, 2014- By Steven E. Greer Another huge credit card data security hack was in the news today. The FBI estimates that 500 Million incidents of credit card data hacking have occurred this year....
View ArticleI was in the delivery room when Obamacare was born
Update September 21, 2014- Obamacare is causing more people to go to the hospital, which is driving revenue fr the big corporations. Therefore, the GOP lobbyists are telling the Republicans to back off...
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 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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