The famed pathologist William George MacCallum once asserted that “a successful pathologist is either single or unhappily married.” While his reasoning likely reflected his unique outlook on life shaped in part by his relationships with movie royalty he was perhaps in a small way prescient. Reflecting on my love of pathology as part of residency […]
Medical Scares on Vacation
Have you or a loved one gotten a mosquito bite in the last month? The entire time I’ve been on vacation, everyone is aiming to prevent Zika but at the expense of keeping the peace. The reality is, we’re more likely to get Norovirus than Zika virus. How do we go about increasing public awareness […]
E-cigarettes: a Growing Problem with a Growing Body of Evidence for Harm
In the first half of this decade, e-cigarettes were advertised and touted as a healthy option for smokers, essentially billed as “just the nicotine in healthy water vapor without all the harmful contents of tobacco smoke.” However, such claims are deja vu from the tobacco industry. Cigarettes themselves were touted as “good for your throat” […]
