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PalMD is a practicing internist in the Great Lakes region of the U.S.. Aside from the great joy he finds in his family and his work, he likes communicating some of that joy to others. He has a special interest in the ways patients---and we are all patients at one time or another---are deceived by charlatans. He aims to change the world, one reader at a time. Previous writings can still be found here, and here. I also write twice a month for Science-Based Medicine
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February 28, 2009
Category: PalCast
It's up and ready! It's maybe not my best, but I'm getting used to my new equipment and I've been out of the podcasting biz for a while. Feel free to come back here and discuss....
Posted by PalMD at 4:21 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 27, 2009
Category: Narcissistic self-involvement
MTV news is reporting that Bow Wow is coming to Chris Brown's defense. For those of you who have been too busy worrying about the economy to follow the personal lives of celebrities, Chris Brown is a young singer who...
Posted by PalMD at 9:02 AM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 26, 2009
Category: Medicine
Yesterday, a fellow medical blogger suffered a blow most of us cannot imagine. She goes by the name "drsmak" and was a great writer before her son fell ill, but when her son fell ill, her document of the struggle...
Posted by PalMD at 4:23 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Narcissistic self-involvement
It's really early, but I've been up for a while. The leg pain caused by the disk pushing into my L5 nerve root is turning me into a cranky insomniac. So this morning I'm giving in. I'm giving up on...
Posted by PalMD at 5:27 AM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 25, 2009
Category: Absurd medical claims
The Autism Omnibus Trial is a conundrum for the infectious disease promotion movement. Still, their ability to pick up the goalposts and run is unmatched, and that is just what David Kirby and Robert Kennedy, Jr. have done in today's...
Posted by PalMD at 6:36 PM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Narcissistic self-involvement
HP feels really, really bad, and they are sending me a brand new tablet pc, apparently a newer, shinier, happier one. Yea!!...
Posted by PalMD at 4:26 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 23, 2009
Category: Absurd medical claims
A while back I wrote about a naturopathic "physician" who was specifically preying on the Latino community. This is troubling for a number of reasons, some of which I mentioned. In my zeal to rant about the quackery, I may...
Posted by PalMD at 7:07 PM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Narcissistic self-involvement
So I've been dealing with a sick computer for a while now. It died ungracefully during ScienceOnline09, first giving me the dread blue screen of death, then giving me a black startup screen that said the pc equivalent of "piss...
Posted by PalMD at 6:39 PM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Medicine
If you read the news, you know that Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has pancreatic cancer. I am not privy to the details of her illness, but it was apparently amenable to surgery, which gives her a fighting chance, and today,...
Posted by PalMD at 2:52 PM • 17 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 20, 2009
Category: Medical Musings
This is an essay from several years ago, but with so many WWII vets dying, I thought I'd keep this little bit of oral history around. About an hour before my patients begin to show up, I sit at my...
Posted by PalMD at 8:21 AM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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