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Reading the medical literature – that is, articles reporting studies of various aspects of health and disease – can be enlightening.  It’s how we docs keep up with new knowledge and progress, after all, but it can also be frustrating – for ex

Disclaimer: My thoughts are based on a summary of a poster that describes the study in question.

Some of you screwballs out there have been complaining that I'm not giving enough chemistry lessons. No accounting for taste.

Heroin, not oxycodone or hydrocodone, is by far the most dangerous opiate on the street. But technically, it isn't dangerous at all. And it's not necessarily a "street" drug because It can be legal. Confused?

Just what we don't need. Another anti-opioid (pro-pain) zealot spreading the false gospel. But we have one anyhow - US Surgeon General Jerome Adams, M.D.  On July 3rd Dr. Adams Tweeted the following:

End-of-life hospitalizations can, for obvious reasons, be brutal for the individual and his or her loved ones.

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