I was doing my monthly pediatric review material and came across BRUE. I looked at it and said what the heck are they talking about. Then I realized that they had taken a condition that I had seen [...]

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 days. The patient was in a wheelchair. She had a drawn haggard appearance. She had [...]

Getting into medical school has always involved a number of factors. For example, I was on the faculty of the Uniformed University of the Health Sciences (the military medical school). To even be considered for an interview at [...]

In the past I have written about something called justification bias. That occurs when we dismiss bad news about someone we like or good news about someone we dislike. There are other kinds of biases that we see. [...]

September is National Cholesterol Education Month. It, therefore, makes sense to review cholesterol effects and treatment. My father had high cholesterol and cholesterol plaques around his eyes. It was surely a contributor to his 1979 fatal heart attack [...]

One of the things that happens in medicine is that rare events are often not noted until a large enough population is involved in the medication or procedure. When I was practicing pediatrics, it was my personal preference [...]

We all like to embellish stories to put us in the best light. Some people do it more than others. Some of that is due to self consciousness. Individuals may feel inferior and want to put themselves in [...]

I was recently at a meeting. Someone there was talking about the issues he had with retinal detachments. The point he made was that we take our vision for granted. However, we sometimes need to pay more attention [...]

There are some things that are so common that we know about them. Cigarette smoking causes lung cancer. There are other things that we sometimes do not realize. We have known for years that pipe and cigar smokers [...]

There are many psychological defense mechanisms. One of the ones I have not written about before is something called Hasty Generalization. This occurs when someone makes an observation. That observation is then generalized to apply to a larger [...]