My daughter just completed her intern year at a family practice residency in Pittsburgh. Unfortunately, it proved to be the same sort of unnecessary hell that I experienced 23 years ago. Despite so-called reforms in limiting hours worked that began in 2003, the intern...

The day after I left the Hershey ER I woke up feeling that my hearing, which had not been good for years, was suddenly substantially worse. I asked my wife to call audiologist David Kauffman in Greencastle for an appointment to discuss hearing aids. She was quiet for...

Recently I was diagnosed with Myasthenia Gravis which is a neuromuscular autoimmune disorder; fortunately it can be managed with medication and will not affect my career. But I want to review the experience as an example of what happens in modern medicine and the...

The 2017 National Academy of Medicine (NAM) report says there is substantial evidence that cannabis is effective for the treatment of chronic pain. But the studies cited were small and only compared to placebo. So is it more effective than Tylenol? The NAM does not...

The science on marijuana has developed greatly since 1999 when the government funded National Academy of Medicine (then called the Institute of Medicine) reassured us that both marijuana and prescription opioids posed little societal danger. Oops! In January 2017 the...

In the summer of 1971 I was commanding a tank platoon on the Hohenfels training ground in Germany. My platoon was pursuing an enemy platoon that was withdrawing. My eyes were fixed on the retreating platoon so that it did not get away; we were traveling cross-country...