Author: Pat Conrad MD

This time of year, down here on the Gulf Coast, we all keep a close eye on all the hurricane

A loooong Sunday overnight in the desolation of the Atlanta mega-airport (hint:  NO bars, restaurants, nada was open), interrupted interminable hours

Crazy times out there, kiddies.  COVID and the great sprawling controversies of “vaccine consciousness” are cooking up some odd stories. Item: 

(Undercover operatives got this confidential footage from the last AMA Subcommittee on Documenting Fluid Equity Definitions, which tells a lot.) Maybe it’s

When Dr. Walter Reed started figuring out the whole yellow fever problem, he was aided by some volunteers, also infectious disease

Okay, so this story sort of makes my point.  Don’t get me wrong, I’m an ideologue, a very definite, strong-willed,

Yeah, the picture above is real, in fact taken by yours truly in my very own neighborhood grocery store.  For those

Man, I love a good dystopian movie.  If you want to go full-bore, it’s tough to beat “1984” starring John Hurt

Slap a white coat on someone, give them some extra initials, and far too often they immediately start trying to

If my nephew is smart, he won’t show my rants to his medical school classmates, or at the very least,

For years my sympathies lay with those who (correctly) scolded the foolish parents that would not inoculate their children against

Back in medical school, a classmate who had just signed up with the army asked me (knowing I was a

On November 1, 1968, the classic Star Trek episode “Day of the Dove” aired, guest-starring the ubiquitous Michael Ansara as

A number of hit pieces in the national media have tried to smear 56-year-old Alcalira Jimenez De Rodriguez as somehow “unqualified,” spreading

Someone told me a story from the long ago, that while visiting family his aunt brisked into the kitchen and