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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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April 30, 2010
Category: Absurd medical claims
Dana Ullman is an idiot. Or maybe insane. I'm not sure which, but his latest article at the Huffington Post reveals such a severe defect in rational thought that it must be one or the other (charitably speaking). He calls...
Posted by PalMD at 2:57 PM • 37 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 29, 2010
Category: Absurd medical claims
I've never liked Gary Null. Early in my blogging "career" I wasted thousands of words expressing my incredulity at his horrible health advice, his paranoid rants, and his shameless hucksterism. Then I saw something shiny and forgot about him for...
Posted by PalMD at 3:53 PM • 19 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 28, 2010
Category: Medicine
Thanks for all of your help since yesterday. Here's some of the data I've culled out from the first 24 hours:Blogpost visits: 654Visitor sources: 24% of entrances to the post were from Greg Laden's blog.Feedburner (probably multiple sources): 165facebook: 98Retweets: 83...
Posted by PalMD at 11:46 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 27, 2010
Category: Medicine
Next week I'm going to be giving a talk at the 2010 Great Lakes Homeland Security Training Conference & Expo. The title of the talk will be "Medical Blogs: An Under-Recognized Resource for Public Health Awareness and Communication", but I'll...
Posted by PalMD at 3:57 PM • 64 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 26, 2010
Category: Medical Musings
A few years ago I was walking through a local mall with my daughter and saw a kid about her age wearing a backpack and holding hands with a young woman. He was a gorgeous little boy, with black hair...
Posted by PalMD at 2:14 PM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 19, 2010
Category: Narcissistic self-involvement
I never thought it would happen, but here we are. I can smell the ocean, hear the wind in the coconut palms. My arms are leaden from swimming, my shoulders reddened by the sun. A little while ago, I was...
Posted by PalMD at 4:10 PM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 14, 2010
Category: Medicine
A young relative of mine recently asked me my thoughts about medicine as a career. It's a relatively common question in my mail bag, and a tough one to answer, especially when asked by strangers. Career choices are very personal,...
Posted by PalMD at 5:19 PM • 16 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 13, 2010
Category: Medicine
A few months ago, DrugMonkey reported on a study about how we as health care workers view narcotic users. Narcotic use and abuse is something we deal with every day and presents many challenges. Narcotics are an important tool for...
Posted by PalMD at 2:29 PM • 62 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 12, 2010
Category: Medicine
In the Soviet Union, party membership was everything. Your job, your access to food and other consumer goods, and your apartment all depended on your standing with the party. And votes were simply a tool to provide a patina of...
Posted by PalMD at 1:31 PM • 25 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 10, 2010
Category: #FWDAOTI
Right now I'm feeling rather civilized. I had a yummy brick-oven pizza with my family, including my parents and one of my sisters, and I just finished getting my cranky, over-tired child to sleep. Now I'm sitting at my kitchen...
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