Medical School

Birth control, and family physicians’ knowledge of contraception and options counseling, are critical to caring for families. Family doctors need to be competent in providing comprehensive family planning; it is the bread and butter of primary care and preventive medicine. Let’s get real: birth control is an issue that affects everybody. Unintended pregnancy is one Read more

Back in April, I wrote a blog post for The Doctor’s Tablet about a controversy regarding the ethics of informed consent for research in a study of treatments for extremely premature newborns. The study compared different oxygen levels given to preemies in an attempt to determine the optimal level for this high-risk group. At the Read more

Six down, six to go! We’ve decided to take pause  here at the halfway point in the year for a quick look back at your favorite The Doctor’s Tablet posts since January. You’ve  given us plenty of feedback and visits on a variety of topics but there’s been one subject that’s been a constant hit Read more

  He arrived looking nervous but determined. As a young man diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at the age of 14, Rajesh had been cared for since his adolescence at the diabetes clinic at the Christian Medical College (CMC) in Vellore, India. Throughout his many years as an outpatient, he had developed close relationships with Read more

The “longevity dividend” is defined by economists, demographers and gerontologists as the cost savings obtained by delaying aging. Since no one can “delay” getting older, what we’re talking about here is delaying the onset of major diseases that come with age, such as cancer, diabetes, Alzheimer’s and cardiovascular disease. The longevity dividend isn’t really about Read more