High-MELD living-donor liver transplants show acceptable outcomes, similar to deceased-donor transplants, offering hope for reducing donor shortages. Transplanting liver tissue from a healthy living person to a patient in serious need is safe,...
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Genetics & Environmental Interplay in Diabetes & Obesity
Genetics & Environmental Interplay in Diabetes & Obesity
Determinants of obesity and diabetes are strongly linked to genetic and epigenetic variations. With the increasing prevalence of diabetes and obesity, it is imperative to understand the various factors that influence metabolic function in the body, neural pathways,...
Medical Fiction: Ronald and the Vassal’s Vessel
Medical Fiction: Ronald and the Vassal’s Vessel
This is one of a collection of stories that are like “Final Destination” meets “The Monkey’s Paw” (W. W. Jacobs, 1902). As such, they are tragedies more than either mysteries or horror, and would appeal most to readers who enjoy the inexorable pull of a story arc...
What Does Negligence Really Mean?
What Does Negligence Really Mean?
Any discussion with doctors about avoiding liability for malpractice is hampered from the start because “negligence” is a very charged term. It conjures up images of a slipshod and blundering individual and so doctors understandably immediately become resistant....
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"When experts determine that high blood pressure, heart disease and diabetes are actually good for you, you're going to feel awfully foolish!"
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Are Physicians Morally Obligated to Assist Patients With Medical Crowdfunding?
Are Physicians Morally Obligated to Assist Patients With Medical Crowdfunding?
Medical crowdfunding is touted for its potential to reach an unlimited number of people, the sum of whose individual donations can help achieve campaign goals for even the most daunting financial asks, such as $2.1 million to cover the cost of Zolgensma. For...
Prioritizing Your Own Well-Being
Prioritizing Your Own Well-Being
I was getting ready to sit down and write a piece on the damage that Robert F. Kennedy Jr has done to healthcare and the safety of our children, as well as his recent inflammatory racist/antisemitic comments. It was going to be an essay about how physicians need to...
How Physicians Can Prepare for a Potential Economic Depression
How Physicians Can Prepare for a Potential Economic Depression
To curb inflation and turbulent markets, the US Federal Reserve has marked 2023 with rising interest rates. This economic climate has many financial experts apprehensive about a possible recession. According to Bankrate’s Fourth-Quarter Economic Indicator poll of...
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