Second Opinion

For some elderly taking several blood pressure medications can be risky.  Do they need to take multiple medicines?  Doctor have been hesitant to stop blood pressure medications because they fear they might harm their patients.  The OPTIMISE trial results provides some reassurance. 

Practice guidelines use evidence to help doctors and patients make decisions about care. But, if the guidelines are biased so too are the decisions.

Why do we listen to expert medical groups when they have conflicts of interests that involve pharmaceutical companies and device manufacturers?

With regard to racism, medicine is part of the problem and needs to quickly become part of the solution.

Off label prescribing as grown into an enormous problem, and it risks putting people’s health at risk.

Could it be that our subconscious biases lead us to make assumptions that are not based on the facts?

Doctors have a moral, ethical and legal duty to inform patients of their medical results.  But, do patients have a right to NOT be told crucial medical information?

Florence Nightingale is known as a champion of nursing but she did much more….

The long journey for Remdesivir starting with a deadly cat disease

Medical journalists need to slow down and do their homework before reporting on new research.  Covering medicine is not a race, but a slow evolving process.