“Yellow jaundice”, a redundant phrase that literally means “yellow yellow,” is a sign of a very sick liver. One day when I was in private practice, a quiet woman with chronic hepatitis C infection came to see me because she was the color of a...
Sometimes, there are hills around the village, where I live. On certain days, there they are, surrounding us – sheltering, like a giant cradle; on other days they’re not there at all. As long as I can remember, I have wondered how this could...
In 2015, I was struggling to escape my education to find new ways of thinking about the chronic disease problem. At the time, my colleague Steve Best and I were meeting regularly to free-associate and follow our trains of thought as they wandered...
Today’s Perspective When a patient comes to me with a health complaint, I listen. When it’s my turn to impart advice on what to do about the patient’s problem, what are the tools in my proverbial doctor’s bag? When it comes to chronic diseases like...