Morphine: too much or too little
The balance between the benefits of narcotics and their side effects is at the core of the Principle of Double Effect....
Why I don’t exercise
“I am too tired.” This one burns my buns. Of course, you’re too tired, you don’t exercise! ...
Lynched by Colon Cancer
True or false; the biggest genetic risk is for breast cancer? False. In the United States, the risk for being born with a gene, which will result in breast canc...
Healthcare – Quality or Quantity?
What if you could take one pill and live 10 years longer? What if the pill made you bald and nauseas? What if that one pill made you bald, nauseas, dizzy, impo...
Exporting Cancer
Tragically, even as it builds toward the opportunity and benefits of a “first world” society, Kenya is importing one of the curses of modern life. That cur...
Against medical advice?
In my office, Stan and I talk at length and he poses a challenging question. He says, “Doc, if I was a friend of yours what would you recommend?”...
My doctor is a computer!
There was no mistake, but a bad thing has happened. Despite the best efforts of the doctors, Bob’s wife is very sick. Due to a rare side effect of treatment...
Child Drug Poisoning Increasing
As an Oncologist, I write many prescriptions. Narcotics, chemotherapy, sedatives, anti nausea, steroids and dozens of other drugs. Therefore, I was quite shake...
Med School Merger: An Oncologist’s View
If it seems to you that the merger of Rutgers University and Robert Wood Johnson Medical School has been a long time coming, you are right. It has not been ju...
The Next 235 Years
In 1776, traveling by horse, buggy and foot, the physicians of New Jersey came to a roadside inn by the Raritan River called Duff’s Tavern. There they forme...