Obesity is worsening not because of patients’ failures, but because of medical science’s failure to understand it. Depending on old tactics to deal with the problem is an expression of ignorance. The rising epidemic indicates not only that...
“Yellow jaundice”, a redundant phrase that literally means “yellow yellow,” is a sign of a very sick liver. I recall a patient of mine, a quiet woman with chronic hepatitis C infection who visited me looking like a lemon. As I examined her...
Today’s Perspective When a patient comes to me with a health complaint, I listen. When it’s my turn to impart advice on what to do about the patient’s problem, what are the tools in my proverbial doctor’s bag? When it comes to chronic diseases like...