Harm Reduction

It began with the Daily Mail in the UK reporting on a lead from Instagram of a Florida teen whose lung collapsed from vaping. What a great story in this media environment, if only it were true.

In the Beginning.

Stop and frisk, was a controversial police program in New York where “suspicious” individuals were stopped without any other probable cause and questioned by police.

Like the ripples made by a rock thrown into a pond, the evils of opioid’s especially those “handed out” by physicians perturbs the pond of common sense medical care.

60% of America’s annual deaths, 1.7 million deaths are due to medical error! Do I have your attention? Those numbers are based on a study [1] of course and are not so much blown out of proportion as just wrong.

One of the takeaway lessons from the opioid epidemic was that physician’s prescribing behavior often lags behind recommendations.

Pop quiz! What is the cause of our opioid epidemic? A. Doctors prescribe too many opioids. B. The government insisted doctors control pain better C. Big Pharma created addictive drugs and lied to us

Quick quiz, what side-effects, if any, concern you about the use of statins, those medications designed to lower our cholesterol?  Most people would mention the most common side effect, muscle aches or myalgia that occur in roughly 11% o

There is valid concern about diversity and inclusiveness in research participants, and in the disparity in the severity and age of onset for cardiovascular disease among African Americans.

Violence in healthcare is not limited to surgery, where it is controlled in service to healing. There are infrequently, but not infrequently enough, the random gun violence we have seen in hospitals and other healthcare settings.