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I heard about this a few months ago and saw this article in Medscape (Fecal Transplantation for C difficile: A How-To Guide David A. Johnson, MD) and decided to summarize it for easy reading. The issue would be how many of us would be willing recipients…..I guess when one does not have much of a [...]

A moving talk – something for patients and doctors alike…..something we doctors have forgotten .. the human touch. As written on the TED, “Modern medicine is in danger of losing a powerful, old-fashioned tool: human touch. Physician and writer Abraham Verghese describes our strange new world where patients are merely data points, and calls for [...]

Updates on Malaria

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Another interesting article I came across on how scientist are dealing with Malaria. Human Swallows Pill. Mosquito Bites Human. Mosquito Dies. By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr. Scientists have proposed an intriguing new way to fight malaria: turning people into human time bombs for mosquitoes. A cheap deworming pill used in Africa for 25 years against [...]

I read this beautiful article by Dudley Clendinen who is a former national correspondent and editorial writer for The Times, and author of “A Place Called Canterbury” and suffers from Lou Gehrig’s disease. The Good Short Life By DUDLEY CLENDINEN I have wonderful friends. In this last year, one took me to Istanbul. One gave [...]

There was an editorial written in Surgery News by the esteemed lead editor, Lazar J. Greenfield, M.D. who is a Professor Emeritus of Surgery, University Michigan and also the president-elect of the American College of Surgeons. The editorial brought about complaints and eventually, the inventor of the Greenfield filter — a device placed in the [...]

An elderly gentleman who saw me in the clinic a few days ago mentioned that many doctors don’t listen much to their patients and tend to utilize the many investigative instruments they have too easily that sometimes it is more a knee jerk reflex action. I have to agree as I myself have seen more [...]

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