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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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May 31, 2010
Category: Medicine
According to my family's recollection, none of our relatives has died fighting for the United States. My grandmother was from a small town in what is now Belarus and most people in the family were born, lived, and died there....
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Category: meta-blag
I'm off to watch my daughter march in some sort of neo-fascist parade (Daisy scouts) and then off to the hospital, but first some quick housekeeping issues: You can subscribe to WCU's feed here.You can have updates delivered by email.There...
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May 28, 2010
Category: Medicine
As summer approaches and people spend more time outdoors, many parts of the country will start to see cases of Lyme disease. It is carried by deer ticks and is especially common in the Northeast. Tick bites often go unnoticed,...
Posted by PalMD at 1:07 PM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 26, 2010
Category: Medicine
As my regular readers know, I'm not a big fan of our current health care system. Our bloated, industry-driven system manages to deliver less effective care at a higher cost than most other industrialized nations. The system is Byzantine, unnavigable,...
Posted by PalMD at 5:16 PM • 21 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 25, 2010
Category: Medicine
A few news items of import:Andrew Wakefield, formerly a licensed to practice medicine in England, has officially lost that privilege. Others have covered this more comprehensively than I'd ever be able to, but this is big news. Wakefield is the...
Posted by PalMD at 1:08 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 24, 2010
Category: Medicine
Too many too soon: that's Jenny McCarthy's rallying cry. The disingenuous activists of the antivaccine movement use this motto as a foot in the door, claiming that they are not truly "anti-vaccine", just pro-"safe vaccines". This is despite the fact...
Posted by PalMD at 9:06 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 21, 2010
Category: Narcissistic self-involvement
Of all the crappy things I eat, bacon is probably the crappiest. Thankfully, I eat it only rarely, but if you were to put a pound of cooked bacon in front of me, I would eat a pound of cooked...
Posted by PalMD at 2:51 PM • 15 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Politics
I hate writing about politics, but the mainstreaming of racism since the election of Obama makes writing about politics a moral imperative. We'll start with Dr. Rand Paul, who is running for one Kentucky's senate seats. The usual racist dog...
Posted by PalMD at 12:07 PM • 32 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 20, 2010
Category: Medicine
Dana Ullman, a Huffington Post blogger who never fails to bring the stupid, has now gathered all the idiocy he can find, put it in a wheelbarrow, and dumped it into his latest piece up at HuffPo. In this piece,...
Posted by PalMD at 1:41 PM • 22 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 19, 2010
Category: Medicine
If there were a parallel universe, and in that universe medicine, instead of being based on science, was simply a gemisch of various folkways and superstitions, medicine in that universe would be called "naturopathy". "Remember. Hey, how come this never...
Posted by PalMD at 2:28 PM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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