For those who haven't noticed yet ... we have recently added constant and blatant lying by senior members of government to the ways that the American public receives information about its health systems and its health care. Luckily for us, it also appears that a significant proportion of the senior members of the healthcare community …
The two most important things I do (on a daily basis)
When one is very young one often thinks everything one does is important, because, of course, it is -- if only to oneself (although one's family may have a reasonable tendency to encourage such a belief). Over the years, I have discovered that some things are much more important than others, and I have now …
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On “precision” and “personalized” medicine …
"Personalized medicine" and "precision medicine" have become two of the medical "buzz-terms" of the 21st Century. However, they aren't the same thing at all. In all truth, "personalized medicine" has been with us since Hippocrates and earlier. Here's why. Every surgical procedure ever carried out is a form of personalized medicine, and every half-decent surgeon …
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“Data” is a plural noun!
How many times have you seen (or heard someone say) something like, "The data shows that 40,000 women will die of breast cancer this year"? Actually, "the data shows" nothing of the sort. For a start, the word "data" is the plural of the singular word "datum" -- from Latin, and the word "datum" originally …
How good a communicator are you?
Every year I read a lot of material: novels, biographies, history, scientific and medical articles, clinical trial protocols, media releases, you name it. But there is a very small number of books that I re-read -- assiduously, every single year. Two of them are: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, by Charles L. Dodgson (a.k.a. Lewis Carroll) …
The right time to start a new business …
... is when you retire from the one you worked at for 30+ years (32 years, 9 months, and 2 days to be precise). After coming to live and work in America -- for the second time -- in August 1985, the following year, on June 29, 1986, I started working at a small, Philadelphia-based, …