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 [...]

We all like to embellish stories to put us in the best light. Some people do it more than others. Some of that [...]

I was recently at a meeting. Someone there was talking about the issues he had with retinal detachments. The point he made was [...]

There are some things that are so common that we know about them. Cigarette smoking causes lung cancer. There are other things that [...]