January 14, 2021 COVID Quarantine is not meant for you to become an alcoholic! Interview with Dan Gross from Channel 8 RochesterFirst.com about the rise of alcohol intake during the pandemic and unawareness amongst surveyed women of the link between alcohol intake and higher risk of developing cancer. Click on this link to read the …
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December 23, 2020 Can you tell the difference between an “anti-vaxxer” and a “vaccine-doubter”? An anti-vaxxer will outright deny and reject vaccines and may be quite rigid in their views. In contrast, a vaccine-doubter understands the importance of vaccines but has many valid inquiries. The latter may be more accepting of meaningful discourse, so here …
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June 7, 2020 I am neither black nor white. I’m brown. I can choose to stay silent and indifferent, but the human and the American in me urges me to express my feelings and opinion about the current situation in the country resulting from a series of unfortunate events, particularly George Floyd’s blatant murder in …
We need more black cops. We need more black physicians. Read More »
June 3, 2020 Until about 50 to 100 years ago, the tradition was to name diseases after the doctors who used to describe them for the first time. Such diseases are called eponymous diseases. There are numerous examples, such as Alzheimer’s disease, Marfan’s syndrome, and Wilson’s disease, to name a few. Often, specific signs and …
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May 29, 2020 “You forgot your stethoscope!” The medical student dutifully pointed out as we were on our way to the patient room. “I don’t need it. But let me grab it anyway to pretend. But don’t tell anyone I said that!” I replied. Her eyes widened with disbelief at the blasphemous statement. At the …
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