During my formative or education years in Internal Medicine and Pulmonary Medicine in the 1960s, I had the good fortune of international exposure. While still in the Air Force, I was able to attend the International Union against Tuberculosis (IUAT) in Amsterdam courtesy of the USAF. Tuberculosis was still a global problem, especially in the […]

Mitochondria are the chief energy generators within the cell with diverse functions. Cellular function has come a long way just during my 45 years of Medical and Pulmonary practice. At that time, we were studying and reviewing cells, cytoplasm, nuclei, nucleoli and just beginning with early information on DNA. The ATS was preparing for this […]

ATS 2018 kicked off with the Opening Ceremony, featuring distinguished physician, educator, and medical scientist Darrell G. Kirch, MD, president and chief executive officer of the Association of American Medical Colleges. “It is high time that we exert our leadership for the sake of the people we serve,” said Darrell G. Kirch, MD, “Our patients […]

Last month’s Postings: In The May Issue Featured Article: Electronic Health Record Software In the News: Barbara Bush’s End-Of-Life Decision Stirs Debate Over ‘Comfort Care’ International Medicine: The Cost of Waiting for Canadian Medicare Medicare: Rescuing seniors and Part D from Congress Gluttony: The common reference to capitalism in our progressive society Medical Myths: Doctors […]

On May 1, 1786, Austrian composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s opera The Marriage of Figaro premieres in Vienna. On May 1, 1883, Legendary American hunter/showman/cowboy Buffalo Bill (William F. Cody) stages his first Wild West show. On May 1, 1921, The U. S. Lighthouse Service begins guiding ships into New York harbor with a system of […]

The Galen Institute, Grace-Marie Turner President, galen.org founded in 1995 to promote an informed debate over free-market ideas for health reform. Grace-Marie has been instrumental in developing and promoting ideas for reform to transfer power over health care decisions to doctors and patients.  She speaks and writes extensively about incentives to promote a more competitive, […]

June 8, 1925 – April 17, 2018 Barbara Pierce was born to Marvin and Pauline Pierce in Flushing, Queens of New York City. Her father was president of the McCall Corporation, which published the well-known magazines McCall’s and Redbook. Growing up in an Episcopalian family in the bedroom community of Rye, New York, Bush was […]

God heals and the Doctor takes the Fees. –Benjamin Franklin Money-giving is a very good criterion . . . of a person’s mental health. Generous people are rarely mentally ill people.  —Karl A Menninger, Co-Founder of the Menninger Clinic of Psychoanalysis. The poorest man would not part with health for money, but . . . […]

Comfort care, in our clinical experience, simply means continue the present full regimen of medical and nursing care, sustenance, and pain relief but not institute new treatment or resuscitation programs such as CPR, Intubation, Ventilators, new feeding tubes, new pacemakers, or any emergency surgeries.

I’ve found that I can change the conversation at any social gathering by mentioning Louann Brizendine’s book The Female Brain—David Brooks, New York Times.  THE PHASES OF A FEMALE’S LIFE: Hormones can determine what the brain is interested in doing. They help guide nurturing, social, sexual, and aggressive behaviors. They can affect being talkative, being […]