I love musicals. I know every Rodgers and Hammerstein musical and every obscure song they wrote. If you ever hear me sing Karaoke, you will know what I mean. “I can name and sing that song in 4 notes…”
However, I don’t know enough musicals– like Candide– by one of my favorite composers, Leonard Bernstein. Would [...]

This entry was posted on Thursday, May 19th, 2005 at 12:54 pm and is filed under Infections, Women's Issues. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

Women have some medical issues that men don’t have to worry about: PAP smears and pelvic exams, mammograms, etc. But men do need testicular exams, and rarely, men can get breast cancer. The big issue for men by the age of 40 or 50 is the dreaded prostate exam.
Is the prostate such a problem? [...]

This entry was posted on Thursday, May 5th, 2005 at 2:51 pm and is filed under Men's Issues. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

When I was an internal medicine resident at Cedars-Sinai/UCLA– the “Hospital of the Stars”– I never met celebrities like Mikhail Gorbachev or Mikhail Baryshnikov, but I sure met a lot of other Russians. Cedars-Sinai had a large Russian population in the clinic system, and most of us had to rely on Russian interpreters to communicate [...]

This entry was posted on Thursday, May 5th, 2005 at 2:14 pm and is filed under Office Visits, Patient Behavior, author's viewpoint. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

John Lennon’s song, “Imagine,” is one of the best songs ever, and I’m willing to arm-wrestle over that one– wait, Lennon wouldn’t want that– I’ll out-sing anyone instead. The song is about peace and love: utopia. Imagine a world in which you could buy fresh produce, taste different cheeses from around the world, get sashimi-grade [...]

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The Beatles sang a great song, “Here Comes the Sun.” I love the sun; it makes a gray day… well, sunny. “Sunny, thank you for the sunshine in my life…”
Regardless of how much we love the sun, skin cancer is on the rise. So a rock group like No Doubt needs to come up [...]

This entry was posted on Thursday, May 5th, 2005 at 12:37 pm and is filed under Cancer, Dermatology, Health & Wellness. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.