If your goal is to keep medical expenses down, using generic medicines instead of name brand can make a huge difference. But are generics as good or as safe as name-brand drugs? [caption id="attachment_2303" align="alignnone" width="699"] Will they work? Are they safe?[/caption] Today, about 88 percent of all scripts written are for generics, which…
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Weed and Holiday Heart – a New Warning
I learned about a variation on the Holiday Heart Syndrome last night. Talking to a fellow physician friend, he told me he had to stop smoking weed because it caused atrial fibrillation (AF). [caption id="attachment_2297" align="alignnone" width="1013"] Could This Be Your Doctor?[/caption] I trust it is not too radical, the idea of a…
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How to Avoid Dr. Death
On February 16th, The Washington Post and the Dallas Morning News had an article about a Texas neurosurgeon, Christopher Duntsch, nicknamed “Dr. Death,” who was taken to court after he performed a spinal fusion on a 74-year-old woman. Duntsch left one nerve root severed and another with a screw through it, causing the patient…
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