Author: Pat Conrad MD

Some stories, like this one, are tricky.  From every level of government to every single media outlet (no exceptions), to talk

“We’re all in this together.”  Oh, how I have come to hate this phrase, which is less an expression of communal

This will let me in for some criticism, so too bad.  I am angry, very damn angry over our response to

While I can’t deny the sleaze factor of our next story, I’ve got to admire the entrepreneurial spirit therein.  There is

So far as I know, the infernal USMLE is still in force, which means medical students have a ton of

More than twenty years ago in family practice residency, we were introduced to caring “for the whole patient.”  We were supposed

Once again, another fine case of a hospital deciding to target a physician, in this instance, an OB/GYN named Rebecca Denman,

Has the average human body temperature dropped?  Some researchers think so.  Having looked at data spanning 157 years, and adjusting for

 If physicians have any worth to society, it ought to begin with their telling the truth.  Some of you have read