You went to your healthcare provider with a long list of bothersome and somewhat unusual complaints. Perhaps you were expecting his or her response, or perhaps it was a complete surprise, but now you have been officially diagnosed with one or more mental illnesses or...

I sometimes like to watch Mark Levin’s Fox show “Life, Liberty and Levin”. I usually try to tune in because he seems to have a unique ability to draw information out of a broad range of interesting people, making him more or less a male Barbara Walters. Last week I...

I live North of Boston, so Dunkin Donuts has been a major part of my life for many years. Every workday you will find me queued up at my local Dunkin Donuts. I always order the same thing—large, hot, black coffee. Even though they have seen me order this a billion...

I rarely blog twice about the same topic, but this will be an exception. If you read my first blog, you already know my initial impression of Christine Blasey Ford and Brett Kavanaugh. I believe that Dr. Ford has significant food-induced brain dysfunction or CARB...

Fear of Flying? What the Heck is that all About? First of all, I have no idea whether or not Brett Kavanaugh sexually abused Christine Blasy Ford. This sort of “he said, she said” situations are always difficult to sort out. As a physician with an interest in...

If I am going to write about everything that's wrong with the health care system in the United States, I would need to write at least a 2,000-part series, assuming that I stuck with only the major flaws. To keep things simple, I'll start by examining what our...

In a way, it seems like a silly question. With world poverty, trade wars, possibly nuclear war, environmental devastation and other disasters on the menu of current events, the fact remains that many people in the world don't have enough food to sustain a reasonable...

As long as I can remember, one of my favorite activities has been intense people watching. For me this has never been a casual activity. When my Greek wife and I first started dating almost 15 years ago, she sometimes accused me of “ogling” other women when we were...

That’s why I anticipated the recent Science journal article from the Brain Consortium. Huge, humongous, enormous, gargantuan, colossal—I’m not sure if any of these adjectives fully grasp the impact of this article. Even though the title “Analysis of Shared...