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A Good Study Gone Bad?
I’ve written before in these pages about the critical importance of clinical research, especially randomized controlled trials (RCT). These trials...
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How Low Is Too Low?
Aha! I was hoping that the title of this little essay might grab your attention. But what exactly am I referring to here? Blood pressure? Blood...
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Charging Into the Golden Years
Thirty years ago, my grandparents were still alive. They lived in a small house in central Illinois with a front porch and a swing. As they aged,...
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Memories Past and Future
Thirty years ago, I was a predoctoral intern in clinical psychology. A major puzzle was dementia—what goes wrong in the brain to cause a profound...
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Surgery to Improve Patient Care: Sometimes More, Sometimes Less
The art and practice of surgery has undergone many changes and advancements over the past 30 years. I have experienced many of these over the past...
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The Golden Era of Treatment in Rheumatology
Remember back in 1983 when gold was all the rage? A huge Brinks robbery in London that year resulted in the loss of £26 million of gold bullion. A...
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Imagining Sisyphus Happy—Redux
The cover of the May 2013 edition of Emerging Infectious Diseases offered an appropriate analogy to reflect on the advances in infectious disease...
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The Past and Future in Gastroenterology
A mere 30 years ago I was just beginning my residency in internal medicine, and in 2009, I completed my gastroenterology fellowship training....
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Of Hype and Hope: The Past and Future of Mental Health Care
During the golden age of antibiotics when, penicillin miraculously cured infections that were the leading causes of death, many leaders in...
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Urology: Engineered for the New Millennium
As I considered the myriad of advances made in the field of urology over the last 30 years, it became clear that the majority of these advances...