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• Killer on death row: 'It's a very surreal experience'

  Tue May 15, 2012
  • As a physician I volunteer to give him the injection.

• Critics blast formula freebies in hospitals

  Mon Sep 26, 2011
  • As a pediatrician I strongly encourage that infants receive breast milk in the first 6 months. As a realist I also realize that breastfeeding does not work for everyone! Therefore it is the right of the parents to determine which avenue they feel works best for there infant and the family.

• 2 Americans freed by Iran 'eager to go home'

  Sat Sep 24, 2011
  • Ok three comments: 1: What idiots go hiking in Iraq/Iran with all that's going on there. Will not go as far a saying they deserved being imprisoned but they should not be naive enough to think nothing would happen. 2. Who paid the million dollars. Did it come out of the taxpayers money. 3.

• For some primary care, try your local pharmacist

  Thu Mar 24, 2011
  • Give me a break. The pharmacists are great to manage Rx questions and drug interactions. However they have no concept of disease management, physiologic processes and especially diagnosis.

• For some primary care, try your local pharmacist

  Thu Mar 24, 2011
  • Give me a break. The pharmacists are great to manage Rx questions and drug interactions. However they have no concept of disease management, physiologic processes and especially diagnosis.

• More young people are winding up in nursing homes

  Fri Jan 7, 2011
  • As a physician who cares for this type of patient it comes down to $. The insurance companies pay for children under the age of 21 however after 21 they revert to adult nursing home rates which are pitiful.

• Nurse's diagnoses can be as accurate as a surgeon's

  Thu Nov 18, 2010
  • The diagnosis in low back pain patients is not the issue. MRI tells the truth. The trick is the treatment. Let the nurses operate and see what the outcomes are!

• Doctors brace for possible big Medicare pay cuts

  Fri Nov 12, 2010
  • To Promaerica and James

• Voters say they cast their ballots against Obama, Pelosi

  Wed Nov 3, 2010
  • Brilliant Hooops. Your contribution to this discussion was enlightening. I'm especially impressed by your command of the English language.

• Voters say they cast their ballots against Obama, Pelosi

  Wed Nov 3, 2010
  • Not necessarily a vote against Obama as much as I disapprove, however it was a vote against Pelosi primarily and secondarily a vote against all incumbents to get their act together. They need to support us, not advance their interests and personal ideology.