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Doctoring General Cardiology General Medicine Health Care Reflection

Do cardiologists prescribe too many drugs?

One of the most common reasons people require medical care is their medical care. This is a distinctly modern problem. In times past, doctors treated disease. Patients saw their doctor when they were sick. They had a problem; doctors offered help. The doctor of today often improves health by removing healthcare. It’s one of my […]

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Doctoring General Cardiology General Medicine Health Care Hospice/Palliative Care ICD/Pacemaker

To deprescribe…Adding a new verb to the language of doctoring

What follows is my most recent editorial in the Journal of the Kentucky Medical Association. It is reposted with permission. **** One day every month, my wife Staci, a hospice and palliative care physician, goes to see an elderly woman in the nursing home. The routine has gone on for years, which is surprising because […]

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Doctoring Hospice/Palliative Care

Be courageous: help stop the pill madness

Medicine people give it a sterile-sounding name. Polypharmacy means giving too many drugs, usually to an elderly person. But this practice is worthy of clearer words: dumb, dreadful or doctoring at its worst. The idea to mention the growing problem of giving too many pills in combination came to me after reading this Medscape coverage […]