The Cheerful Oncologist posts a nice piece about When Is No Treatment the Right Treatment? It’s a difficult question that surgical oncologists have to face as well. His example is a man with lung cancer who has recently rapidly deteriorated with little hope for long-term survival. Should he get chemotherapy? Are the risks (immunosuppression, etc.) […]
Although I’ve mentioned before that I am a surgical oncologist, but I recently noticed that, in nearly five months of blogging, I’ve yet to explain exactly what that is or what it means. I’ve written about all sorts of things, ranging from alternative medicine, to the evolution-creationism conflict, to the Holocaust, to even trying my […]
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Grand Rounds, vol. 3, no. 11
Grand Rounds vol. 3, no. 11 has been posted at The Antidote. Enjoy!
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Apparently my handy-dandy Only Response You’ll Ever Need To Choprawoo, written in response to the last volley of Choprawoo to hit the blogosphere, hit a nerve. Chopra sycophant and blog comment spammer extraordinaire “ChopraFan” was none too pleased with it. Good. I have to wonder if “ChopraFan” is either Chopra himself or whether he or […]
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Dr. Dr. Stupid (a.k.a. Orac)
As much as I hate to admit it, I’m not perfect. I know, I know, given the (usually) tasty (usually) Respectful Insolence⢠dished out nearly every day here, that’s a hard thing to believe, but it’s true. In fact, occasionally I even do something that is so unbelievably, incredibly, outrageously boneheaded that there’s only one […]
