I’m curious how many of you will make the connection with the title of this piece. No, it is not pointing out that I as president of WCMS wear a “Lion’s Mane” which you can see by my picture is a stretch! I did back in the early 70’s sport an impressive...

The Sunday Time’s book review of March 6 contained an interesting review of a book entitled The Fever of 1721: The Epidemic That Revolutionized Medicine and American Politics by Stephen Coss...

Medicine for many us practitioners, particularly those of us that have been doing this for a while, can become fairly routine. For the primary care doctors, we tend to see the same sort of things over and over. We do checkups...

I am at that stage of my career that I often reflect back on its course. All and all, I have few regrets. It has been a very satisfying journey and I am still jolted from time to time with a new fact or a disorder I am finally seeing for the first time...

The following is the departing speech of the outgoing President of the WCMS , Bruce Molinelli MD FACS, delivered at the Annual Meeting on June 8, 2023....

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI): FRIEND OR FOE, HAL OR HELL? Am I really writing this or did I get ChatGPT to produce this month’s newsletter? Perhaps you have you’re own opinion but only I truly know what I did...

Considered among physicians as anything from uncaring and unnecessary to misguided and misdirecting, the concept of a “Union” is nonetheless resurgent. Perhaps the most recent nursing union strike of 7000 workers in two major NYC...

It’s still ok to read this installment even if you missed parts I and II. Here’s a quick synopsis: Part I — We are really really busy as doctors. Part II —We really really don’t have time to help ourselves but now we have knowledge of...

I know you really don’t have time to read this, so if I can’t say something to catch your interest now, you’re probably going to move on to something else more pressing. So here is the promo grabber- as promised at the conclusion of...

These are my thoughts as I sit in front of my computer after a long day in the office. It is late evening, I am hungry for dinner, yet trying to finish up my office “charting” which in these days means I’m on a computer finishing the...