As I mentioned yesterday, I recently perused all the e-mails that Gmail had flagged as spam and to my dismay found a lot of legitimate e-mail, including mailing list e-mails and Movable Type e-mails notifying me of comments being caught up in the filter. However, I found something scarier than that. In fact, I found […]
Category: Medicine
The other day, I wrote about how several of the suspects arrested in the attempted car bombings in London and Glasgow were physicians or in training to be physicians. At the time, I expressed dismay at what I viewed to be a betrayal of the very basis of our profession, that we try to help […]
Happy 4th of July to all my American readers! For more serious ruminations about the 4th by yours truly, check out posts I’ve done on the topic before: Fourth of July thoughts One last fourth of July thought In the meantime, I’ll be rounding on my partners’ patients all morning, as I drew the 4th […]
One of the things that I found most disturbing about the recent failed bombing attempts in London and the car attack in Glasgow, aside from the terrorism and potential for huge losses of life, is this: GLASGOW, Scotland (AP) — British police focused Tuesday on at least four physicians with roots outside Britain – including […]
One thing that’s become obvious to me over the last few years that I’ve been engaged in dealing with various forms of pseudoscience, alternative medicine, and conspiracy theories is that people who are prone to credulity to one form of pseudoscience, the paranormal, or other crankery tend to be prone to credulity towards multiple forms […]
