A cloudy view of the future
Some days I just can’t help feeling great about the future, especially the future of medicine. And then on other days, like today, I watch videos and read stories on the Internet of people being gunned...
View ArticleNot to wax poetic . . .
Thanks to the Polar Vortex, this has been a harsh—some might say cruel—winter in my little town that sits along the border between North and South. Thankfully, we have the poetry of William Carlos...
View ArticleWhy a new oral therapy for hepatitis C may be a game changer
Why a new oral therapy for hepatitis C may be a game changer
View ArticleHow to spend $450 million wisely
Blowing through a half-billion dollars is probably a lot harder than it seems
View ArticleWorking the system at expense of veteran care
Sending email messages about how to cheat
View ArticleThe Grotto of Font-De-Gaume
Examining the intelligence of the early man through artistic expression
View ArticleArt Appreciation: The Grotto of Font-De-Gaume
Examining the intelligence of the early man through artistic expression
View ArticleUsing hard words (or, if you prefer, complex verbiage)
Using hard words (or, if you prefer, complex verbiage)
View ArticleNicotine eye patch hits ophthalmic nerve
Does occlusion of eye to achieve smoking cessation really make sense?
View ArticleThe 12-year-old CEO
This person looked about as much as a twelve-year-old as do I, and at the risk of sounding rude I told him that perhaps one of us had enjoyed a little too much champagne. "I will explain," he said, and...
View ArticleWhy pediatric ophthalmologists don't go to late night parties
Just like cataract surgery has evolved during my career from a three-day inpatient experience of extracapsular extraction to a three-hour outpatient experience of phaco, we physicians and our practices...
View ArticleIf you’re so smart, why aren’t you happy?
By just about anybody's definition of success, ophthalmologists are successful: intelligent, well-paid, able to make people’s lives better and held in high esteem by the public. Not to mention...
View ArticleOphthalmology and death by poison
Ophthalmologists certainly have the means to go around poisoning people
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