Common Sense Family Doctor

Maybe the third time will finally be the charm. In early November 2009, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force voted unanimously to update...

Dr. Ed Pullen is a family physician who practices at Sound Family Medicine in Puyallup, WA. The following piece is excerpted from a previou...

In almost every large hospital in this country, there are at least two types of patient beds: regular and intensive care. Intensive care bed...

Quick: How many milligrams of sodium did you eat during the Super Bowl? If your big game buffet was anything like mine (hot dogs, buffalo wi...

I'm a big fan of Don Berwick, the current administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services who last week was on Capitol H...

Veneta Masson is a registered nurse and poet living in Washington, DC. She has written three books of essays and poems, drawing on her exper...