Opinion

By Dr. Ismael Nuño, MD Chasing ghosts in the operating room sounds supernatural, but it is actually something we surgeons really do. Each one of ...

By Thomas K. McInerny, MD On Wednesday, the U.S. Supreme Court issued two historic decisions affirming the right of same-gender couples to marry. The American ...

By Harvey B. Lefton, M.D. For the past 45 years, the United States has engaged in a “war on drugs.”  This was popularized in the ...

By Keith Kantor The costs of Obamacare are staggering and will be devastating to small businesses in America. The initial estimates have risen from zero ...

Increasingly trending in health care — and becoming more common as we move closer to the 2014 implementation of the Affordable Care Act — is ...

By Cheryl Bettigole, MD, MPH As physicians, some of us have the job of rising in the middle of the night to try to reverse ...

By Jeffrey Cain, MD The recent tragedies in Colorado and Connecticut highlight the need for focused attention on the all-too-often unacknowledged public health concern of ...

By Alan Lyndon There aren’t many issues as divisive as guns.  In fact, there’s probably just one other – abortion.  But today, the national debate ...

By Harvey B. Lefton, MD With the senseless violence at the Sandy Hook elementary school we are once again plunged into a period of national ...

By Brad Broker While President Obama Sunday evening acknowledged that no law is capable of preventing all violence, he said “that can’t be an excuse ...