New Year’s Day is a time for resolutions. Many people make them. Most people don’t keep them. Part of that is related to [...]

As we celebrate Christmas, we tend to focus on the various good things that happen at this time of year. Those things all [...]

There are many different kinds of diets. They tend to address the different kinds of foods we eat. However, most of them focus [...]

Edgar Allan Poe is known for writing tales of the macabre. One of those tales was titled “The System of Dr. Tarr and [...]

Russian roulette is a game played with revolvers. A bullet is put into one of the six chambers. The chambers are then spun. [...]

We celebrate Thanksgiving every year. However, we sometimes forget that the first Thanksgiving had a deep rooted medical history. The Pilgrims established the [...]

I was an Air Force commanding officer for nine years. I am also Italian. There were times when the things were in direct [...]

We recently visited the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C. As expected the atrocities of the Nazis were really disheartening. The physical and psychological [...]

There is an old saying for leaders. It goes: “Praise in public, criticize in private.” It is a good general approach to getting [...]

In 1999 the Institute of Medicine published a report on the level of quality in U.S. hospitals. The title was To Err is [...]