I don’t want to sound like a whiner. I hate it when doctors seem like malcontents, complaining when their income is much greater than the national average. I am very lucky to be doing what I do.
But sometimes it can be exasperating. It infuriates me to be subjected to a system where [...]

Posted in Being a Doctor, Rants 11 Comments »

I take care of a lot of patients with ADD/ADHD.  I cringe when I say it, but I have developed a fair amount of expertise in the area.
I also have ADD: hence the name of my blog.
There will always be some controversy swirling around the subject.  Some feel it is over-diagnosed and medications are [...]

Posted in Pediatrics, Rants 18 Comments »

Put on your foil hat and head on over to MedPage.  My most recent post over there has brought some ire from the Autism/Mercury conspiracy theorists.  Go on over there and join the zany and madcap discussion.
I am really confused as to why someone running for president would want to emulate a woman famous [...]

Posted in Rants 2 Comments »

As most of my readers know, I am a computer nerd at heart. Specifically, I am very nerdy when it comes to computers in healthcare.
Well, someone got this nerd really mad.
That is a dangerous thing to do.
We will rule the world.

Posted in American Medicine, Rants 1 Comment »

This is a continuation of my rant against the FDA recommendation that OTC cough/cold medications.  If you are sick of that, at least do the survey on the sidebar.
So here is the rationale of the decision of the FDA and cough and cold medication manufacturers:

Cough and cold medications have not been proven to be of [...]

Posted in American Medicine, Rants 11 Comments »