Here is the Surefire Way to Crush the Wuhan Coronavirus. Crush a people. The South China Moring Post article, Why an American mother rushed her daughters back to Shanghai during the Covid-19 outbreak, is meant to...

Fifty years ago this month, Apollo 13 limped back to Earth after an explosion knocked out an oxygen tank and their electrical system. It didn’t look good. In the movie version, flight director Gene...

While on the phone today talking to a presumptive Covid patient, it struck me that I was practicing Old Time Medicine. I practice in Westchester County, NY right where the Greater New York City...

Only 2 months old, New York’s legislative session is already producing head-scratching ironies. They are heading for a ban on vaping flavors like mango, while promoting vaping chemicals like THC. There are good intentions in...

New York State has a looming $8 billion deficit from ballooning Medicaid costs. Governor Cuomo, an astute politician, did what he does best. He formed a committee, called the Medicaid Redesign Team. That way he can...

The other day, I saw a tweet advertising an online medical school. It read, “Become part of the future of primary care as a Medical Doctor. Carson-Newman offers an online MD degree. Clinical placement...

I saw 4 patients with upper respiratory infections. Three got Z-Paks, one got Tamiflu. I performed one nasal influenza swab. Little did I know how much I saved insurers until I read the story...

The Lancet just published a report warning of impending death and destruction from unchecked global warming. The authors focused on the effect of heat waves on older and vulnerable populations. Yet, nowhere in the 43 page...

One recent morning while rereading Napoleon Hill, I came across this quote. Now, he has it in quotations too, but does not attribute it to anybody else. “Life is a checkerboard and the player...

I thought I was going to read another story about evil insurance companies and why we need socialized medicine. Instead, this clinical vignette makes a great case for the free market as a way...