Common Sense Family Doctor

Last week was a busy one: I presented at the American Academy of Family Physicians Assembly  (on lung cancer) and the Family Medicine Educat...

In the late 1990s, the urban public hospital where I trained as a medical student had a single CT scanner. To ensure that this precious reso...

At a recent morning huddle, I noticed that the hanging file of emergency protocols at my practice nurse's station held a new folder, lab...

"Don't let dead cats stand on your porch." This famous quotation, attributed to President Lyndon Johnson during his strenuous ...

Not long after the 2012 elections, I had an interesting conversation with my dad about the policy debates involving the Medicare program. Si...

Every few months, I post a list of my top 5 favorite posts since the preceding "best of" list on this blog, for those of you who h...