When my mother was a child she caught diphtheria. She was able to survive. However, two of her siblings died from the same [...]

I was ushering at one of our weekly Saturday evening Masses. I greeted one of the widows attending the Mass. She told me [...]

Halloween is a fun time for children. We sometimes forget about the origin of the celebration. November 1st is All Saints Day in [...]

Sigmund Freud proposed many ideas as part of his psychoanalytic theory. Many of those ideas involve psychological defense mechanisms that humans use. One [...]

I was doing my monthly pediatric review material and came across BRUE. I looked at it and said what the heck are they [...]

When I was a second year medical student, they brought in a patient with Huntington’s Disease. It was called Huntington’s Chorea in those [...]

Getting into medical school has always involved a number of factors. For example, I was on the faculty of the Uniformed University of [...]

In the past I have written about something called justification bias. That occurs when we dismiss bad news about someone we like or [...]

September is National Cholesterol Education Month. It, therefore, makes sense to review cholesterol effects and treatment. My father had high cholesterol and cholesterol [...]

One of the things that happens in medicine is that rare events are often not noted until a large enough population is involved [...]