Opinion
- Author:
- Alan Rockoff, MD
Publish date: April 5, 2019
On car trips with our kids, we used to listen to comedy tapes. (Cassette tapes. Look them up.)
Opinion
- Author:
- Alan Rockoff, MD
Publish date: March 11, 2019
Octavio has prostate cancer. His prostate growth is large but localized.
“What do your doctors suggest?” I asked him.
“Th...
Opinion
- Author:
- Alan Rockoff, MD
Publish date: February 1, 2019
Measurement without meaning is tyranny.
News
- Author:
- Alan Rockoff, MD
Publish date: January 1, 2019
The it's-not-a-fungus problem seems impervious to both education and even to daily observation as obvious as it is ineffective.
News
- Author:
- Alan Rockoff, MD
Publish date: December 4, 2018
Jerry came to Boston to study; he'd finished 4 months of isotretinoin and needed one more.
News
- Author:
- Alan Rockoff, MD
Publish date: October 30, 2018
Thursday was a big day in my ongoing quest to ask the question, “Why do people act that way?”...
News
- Author:
- Alan Rockoff, MD
Publish date: September 28, 2018
Even when I was training back in the Pleistocene era, old Doc Greenberg was a throwback. During my pediatric residency, I accompanied ...
Opinion
- Author:
- Alan Rockoff, MD
Publish date: September 10, 2018
Expertise and psychology: Every profession needs both, including our own.
Opinion
- Author:
- Alan Rockoff, MD
Publish date: August 2, 2018
In medical school, they taught us to learn the patient’s chief complaint.
In dermatology the presenting complaint is on the outs...
Opinion
- Author:
- Alan Rockoff, MD
Publish date: July 6, 2018
Maybe little kids who used to dream of being firefighters will start to dream that they'll be file clerks with big red hats.
Opinion
- Author:
- Alan Rockoff, MD
Publish date: May 25, 2018
Three years ago, a frightened, middle-aged woman named Josie came to see me with ugly scarring all over her face.
Opinion
- Author:
- Alan Rockoff, MD
Publish date: April 27, 2018
As the old comedian Henny Youngman might have said: Take my prior authorizations. Please!
Opinion
- Author:
- Alan Rockoff, MD
Publish date: April 9, 2018
You can try all you want, but you never really figure people out.Take Brendan. He spent a good few minutes chewing out my front desk staffer Linda....
Opinion
- Author:
- Alan Rockoff, MD
Publish date: March 2, 2018
In a primal, visceral way, people who hide their faces are very hard to face.
News
- Author:
- Alan Rockoff, MD
Publish date: January 24, 2018
I am always amazed at people’s capacity to believe that there is a unique regimen just right for them.
