What to Say to a Rape Victim
What do you say to the rape victim, what can you tell her that might help her begin the process of healing? After 30 years in the emergency room, this is my best attempt.
Medicine
Advice for New Parents
Advice for New Parents: ‘Read to your children’; how an ER doc became a primary care doc, and began changing the world.
Human Prosperity
Human prosperity has increased dramatically in the past 100 years. But we tend to focus on the glitzy technology, and overlook the big reasons for it.
Outrageous Lebanese Genetics
Lebanese Genetics sounds boring, but the Lebanese may be the most stereotypical ethnic group around, an inheritance from the Phoenicians.
Rising Medical Costs
Rising medical costs affect all of us. Health insurance prices are through the roof, drug prices are through the roof, the price of medical services is through the roof. My concern is that we have no easy remedy for any of it.
How Many Brains Do We Have?
If you live in Acadiana, you should check out a current-events talk show on KRVS, ‘Bayou to Beltway‘. The host, Pearson Cross, was the Department Head of Political Science here at the University for some years, and if you keep up with Louisiana politics you have seen him quoted in papers nationwide. He has become … [Read more…]
Women in Medicine & Life
I remember one of my med school classmates, a woman who told us about how she knew when she was very young that she would be a doctor when she grew up. She had no doubt about that. “What I couldn’t figure out,” she explained, “was how I was going to become a man.” It … [Read more…]
AIDS Impact
The aids impact went far beyond the victims, because it changed the rest of us and — perhaps — created a more tolerant and compassionate world.