Antibiotics are one of the most impactful medical discoveries in the past century.  Along with sanitation and sterile technique, antibiotics have led to a dramatic increase in life expectancy.  However, now we have moved down a differ...

Drug companies, the media, physician groups, and patient advocacy groups, month others, have convinced the American public that the key to health is more testing, more doctor visits, more drugs, more procedures.  We have invented more dise...

Today we talk about the impact of drug advertisement on both patient and physician decision making.  These companies know that a huge investment in ads will result in more prescriptions, one of many ways Big Pharma infiltrates so many aspe...

With the opioid crisis looming on the horizon always, the question comes as to how to treat pain.  So many medicines have side effects an are overall dangerous.  Some work about as much as placebo.  We'll talk about medicines, bu...

We have always known about basic cancer screening tests, like mammography and colonoscopy.  But we have expanded the universe of cancer screening, relying on scans, blood tests, and genetic testing.  As we screen more, we find more, w...