Strokes and Seizures

In our dysfunctional healthcare system, patient-centered care is often tossed around by PR types to pretend patients get the care they need when they need it. Many physicians really do care about their patients and want to see them get the treatment they need, but the healthcare system makes it very difficult for doctors to…

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Marmots* and “Evidence-Based” Medicine

While I understand the reasoning behind evidence-based medicine (EBM), common sense tells us that no rules are going to correctly fit a situation 100 percent of the time. We are all different. More importantly, the reduction of medical decision-making to a set of research-based findings destroys the real value of medicine, the story space between…

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