News
- Author:
- Alan Rockoff, MD
Publish date: September 20, 2021
Addressing the reasons people give for their positions, or the reasons others assign to them, may sometimes help people reconsider.
Opinion
- Author:
- Alan Rockoff, MD
Publish date: July 6, 2021
Hypochondriacs with medical degrees cannot reassure themselves, but we can bring useful experience to help other members of the worry club.
Opinion
- Author:
- Alan Rockoff, MD
Publish date: March 11, 2021
The fifth and last time I was listed as Best of Boston was in 2019, when I shared honors with obstetrics, ice cream, interior design, and kitchenwa...
Opinion
- Author:
- Alan Rockoff, MD
Publish date: January 13, 2021
People argue with doctors for the same reason they argue with anybody – because they think they know better.
Opinion
- Author:
- Alan Rockoff, MD
Publish date: November 11, 2020
You may have managed patients for decades and have a hunch about who needs immediate help and who can be watched. But "senses" and "hunches" can't ...
Opinion
- Author:
- Alan Rockoff, MD
Publish date: September 1, 2020
Maybe it’s time to go back to the office.
Opinion
- Author:
- Alan Rockoff, MD
Publish date: May 12, 2020
I have nothing but sympathy for those who are not emeritus, who have practices to sustain and families to feed.
Opinion
- Author:
- Alan Rockoff, MD
Publish date: March 13, 2020
Asking what an emeritus does all day sounds fair, but the question is harder to answer than it sounds.
Opinion
- Author:
- Alan Rockoff, MD
Publish date: November 6, 2019
I wrote my first column for this periodical 22 years ago; this will be my last.
Opinion
- Author:
- Alan Rockoff, MD
Publish date: October 3, 2019
Sometimes you have to look backward to look forward.
Opinion
- Author:
- Alan Rockoff, MD
Publish date: September 6, 2019
Our job, often hard, is to always be civil. Society has zero tolerance for our ever being anything else.
Opinion
- Author:
- Alan Rockoff, MD
Publish date: August 1, 2019
In Walter Mitty moments, many of us daydream of glory: We’ll make that big discovery, score that disruptive app, homer in the bottom of the ninth t...
Opinion
- Author:
- Alan Rockoff, MD
Publish date: July 1, 2019
Evidence applies to populations, whereas I treat people, one at a time.
Opinion
- Author:
- Alan Rockoff, MD
Publish date: May 30, 2019
Fear mystifies. Fear masquerades. Fear can be trivial or terrifying. But fear is always there.
Opinion
- Author:
- Alan Rockoff, MD
Publish date: April 30, 2019
When I stopped by last August to pick up new eyeglass lenses, Harold the optician sat alone in his shop.
