Lives focused through the lens of medicine will burn your eyes

Patient
November 10, 2011

I am a writer as well as a doctor.  My heroes are Keats, Chekhov, Williams, Coulehan, Coles, and other physician writers.  And those greats of medicine too, known and unknown, who have spent their lives caring for people.

My writing is short.  Really short.  If it isn’t poetry, it scans like poetry.  And one act plays.  As in The Ride, my latest collection.  Someone said if you can’t write poetry, you …

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Lives focused through the lens of medicine will burn your eyes

Clinical judgment and when neurologists should order an MRI

Conditions
June 8, 2010

With healthcare reform dominating the news recently, MRI and other imaging tests have become the (misguided) targets of many critics.

Although MRI makes up only one-half of one percent of total healthcare expenditures, it is easy to demonize since the average healthcare consumer can understand imaging much easier than the diagnosis related groups (DRGs), hospital facility fees or insurance contracts that have a much greater impact on the cost of health …

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Clinical judgment and when neurologists should order an MRI