Opinion

By Dr. Indra Cidambi Primary care practitioners may inadvertently be enabling individuals with substance use disorders or causing others to become addicted to prescription medications. ...

By Louis M. Profeta, MD I don’t care if your eight year old can throw a baseball through six inches of plywood. He is not going ...

When a medical error leads to patient harm, it’s hard to argue that no one is more upset than the patient’s family.  However, it’s often ...

By Dr. Bill Miller I have been fortunate to practice medicine during an era of great scientific progress. The pace of this transformation remains exponentially greater ...

By David A. Grimes, M.D. One of the world’s most beautiful buildings, the Taj Mahal stands as a monument to maternal mortality. Mumtaz Mahal died ...

By Dr. Aristotle Economou My private practice in Beverly Hills focuses on delivering a holistic, multi-disciplinary approach to providing medical care to patients in pain. Unfortunately, ...

By Karen Rizzo, MD Many of us suspected that there would be a day when Ebola would arrive in the United States and indeed it ...

By Bill Miller, Ph.D. When I was growing up, I never knew any child with a food allergy. Allergies of any kind seemed rare. Yet ...

By RON HOWRIGON It’s no secret that the healthcare system in this country needs to go on a diet when it comes to costs. Currently, ...

“Physicians who genuinely wish to offer safety information can simply hand out firearms safety and safe storage brochures to all patients.” That was the advice of ...