Drug repurposing, an old concept of using already approved medications for the treatment of new conditions, emerged as one of most divisive elements of the response to the COVID-19 pandemic, writes Jane Orient, M.D, in […]
Physicians targeted for career destruction through hospital sham peer review have limited means of defense, but there are ways in which they can play offense, writes Lawrence R. Huntoon, M.D., Ph.D., in the summer issue […]
Patients taking new weight loss/diabetes drugs such as semaglutide (Wegovy™), and their doctors, need to be aware of the significant risk they pose for sedation or anesthesia, writes anesthesiologist Paul Kempen, M.D., in the summer […]
A couple of degrees increase in average temperature might not seem like much, but what about an increase in hurricanes, tornadoes, wildfires, droughts, floods, and other disasters? Climate deaths from such events are the main […]
Are you up to date on your COVID boosters? Your doctor may be nudging you—since the recommendations and information on shot availability may be in every issue of medical society electronic publications, as they are […]
The institutions and experts we have long relied on are now contaminated with intellectual, moral, and ethical rot, writes ophthalmologist Jane Lindell Hughes, M.D., F.A.C.S., in the spring issue of the Journal of American Physicians […]
Although “off-label” use of drugs approved for a different indication is routine in medical practice, there was an early, aggressive campaign against such use for COVID-19, writes infectious disease specialist Wendell W. Hoffman, M.D., in […]
Sham peer review is often used by hospitals and medical boards to discredit and remove physicians who stand out from the crowd (e.g., innovators, physician whistleblowers, successful competitors). One technique for physicians who fail to […]
Physicians facing allegations of workplace impairment and mandated to submit to a “fitness for duty” evaluation (FFDE), under the threat of losing employment or license to practice medicine, are “pushed onto a train with no […]
Controversy over the origin of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19—a natural zoonosis vs. a lab leak—has escalated to high-level acrimony and even threatened violence, writes Jane Orient, M.D., in the spring issue of the […]
