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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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March 30, 2009
Category: Absurd medical claims
This war taking place in our nation's medical schools and academic medical centers. Orac at Respectful Insolence has been tracking this trend, as have those of us writing at Science-Based Medicine. It is a war between those who feel that...
Posted by PalMD at 1:27 PM • 14 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 27, 2009
Category: Absurd religious wingnutery
Pope Benedict, the former head of the same Church body that ran the Inquisition, has done it again. He just committed an act which is morally equivalent to involuntary sodomy, and did it to an entire continent. Africa, the epicenter...
Posted by PalMD at 4:37 PM • 36 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 26, 2009
Category: Medicine
The best way to prevent sexually transmitted infections is the proper use of condoms. That being said, it's not the only way to prevent STI's. Abstinence is one way, but it involves an amputation of sorts---the removal of a critical...
Posted by PalMD at 2:20 PM • 24 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: meta-blag
My first blogiversary at scienceblogs.com came and went on March 20th, and I failed to eat cake. Oh well, next time I'll remember party favors....
Posted by PalMD at 1:03 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 25, 2009
Category: Absurd medical claims
Whatever you think of its political reporting, no other mainstream media outlet can bring the stupid like the Huffington Post, especially with regards to medical reporting. Its most famous contributors include antivaccinationists like David Kirby and Robert Kennedy, Jr., and...
Posted by PalMD at 3:23 PM • 18 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 24, 2009
Category: Medical ethics
The current insanity at JAMA has been well reported elsewhere (also see these links: here, here, here, and here). I'll give you a thumbnail sketch. A professor from a small university wrote to JAMA (the Journal of the American Medical...
Posted by PalMD at 9:46 AM • 17 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 23, 2009
Category: Fatherhood
There's nothing like the sound of a little kid laughing. It's not just a sound, but an experience of the entire body and mind. They lose control---often of the bladder, and without shame. Anything sets them off---a joke, a pratfall,...
Posted by PalMD at 6:37 PM • 21 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 22, 2009
Category: meta-blag
I was invited to speak on Atheist Talk this morning, a radio show put on by Minnesota Atheists. Stephanie Zvan did the interview, and she's quite good. The show is available as a podcast, and today's show had little to...
Posted by PalMD at 8:12 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 21, 2009
Category: Medicine
Janet and I have another bloggingheads discussion up. We talk about ethics, alternative medicine, and her prostate. Go and watch....
Posted by PalMD at 9:38 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 20, 2009
Category: Medicine
My recent post on head trauma got me thinking. The practice of trepanation (the drilling of holes in the head) is thousands of years old. While looking up information on the practice I came upon this woodcut. The engraving is,...
Posted by PalMD at 1:01 PM • 20 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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