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By Ashish B. Patel, MD In radiation therapy, higher doses produce better tumor control. Yet doses typically must be fractionated in order to limit damage ...
Read More »Good Health Policy Makes Good Public Policy
By William A. Van Decker, MD Irrespective of details and one’s personal views, many people, especially physicians, are pleased that a prominent part of Public ...
Read More »Removing Large Rectal Polyps Through Transanal Endoscopic Microsurgery at Abington
By D. Mark Zebley, MD Natural orifice surgery has been gaining attention lately for its benefits as a minimally invasive approach for some conditions. Yet ...
Read More »Investigational Study at Abington Using New Device for Patients with Moderate Lumbar Spinal Stenosis
By Guy A. Lee, MD Middle-aged and older patients commonly present with neurogenic claudication, the classic nerve-related radiating leg and buttock pain caused by lumbar ...
Read More »Anterior Approach to Hip Replacement Surgery at Abington Improves Patient Quality-of-Life
By Andrew M. Star, MD Hip arthroplasty has been a successful procedure for more than four decades. Yet, as doctors performing this surgery, we continually ...
Read More »What Doctors and Patients Have to Lose Under ObamaCare
Changes to Medicare will give the Feds control of surgical decisions By SCOTT GOTTLIEB Senate Democrats are touting the American Medical Association’s endorsement of ...
Read More »Physicians’ Council for Responsible Reform Forms to Ensure Reform Actually Improves Health Care
By John T. Gill, MD As an orthopaedic surgeon in private practice for over 21 years, I have seen firsthand how decisions in both Washington ...
Read More »A New Semi-Public Option for Health Care Reform; From Bottom Up, Not Top Down
By Jonathan L. Fox, M.D., MBA Can America’s great health care debate be resolved by promoting transparency and fairness for all stakeholders? Perhaps, but for ...
Read More »Washington’s Healthcare Bullies: Kicking Sand In Our Faces
By Elizabeth Lee Vliet, MD The Democrats are the bullies in the healthcare sandbox, assisted by the AMA, AARP and unions who stand to gain ...
Read More »Boundary Issues: A Doctor With MS Confides In Her Patient
Anne Brewster, a Boston internist, has multiple sclerosis, an autoimmune disease of the central nervous system. One day, she decided to risk disclosing something about ...
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