News
- Author:
- Allan M. Block, MD
Publish date: November 8, 2022
Any sort of default setting in medical office software can’t be taken for granted.
Opinion
- Author:
- Allan M. Block, MD
Publish date: November 1, 2022
In the United States, health care isn’t guaranteed, as it is in many other countries.
Opinion
- Author:
- Allan M. Block, MD
Publish date: October 25, 2022
Someone with impaired judgment, cognition, self-control, reasoning, and memory shouldn’t have access to guns.
Opinion
- Author:
- Allan M. Block, MD
Publish date: October 18, 2022
If everything that can be abused gets banned, all we’ll be left with are Tylenol and Preparation H.
Opinion
- Author:
- Allan M. Block, MD
Publish date: October 10, 2022
$18 billion is a lot of money if it’s being spent on fruitless treatments.
Opinion
- Author:
- Allan M. Block, MD
Publish date: October 3, 2022
While there are pros and cons to the whole online review thing, in medicine there are mostly cons.
Opinion
- Author:
- Allan M. Block, MD
Publish date: September 26, 2022
A lot of research papers dangle the promise of an easy cure, but offer nothing definite.
Opinion
- Author:
- Allan M. Block, MD
Publish date: September 19, 2022
Sometimes I look at my younger self, and wonder what I’d really say to him if we actually met.
Opinion
- Author:
- Allan M. Block, MD
Publish date: September 13, 2022
We all come to medicine with varying degrees of curiosity and analytical ability, and once those are refined by experience they don’t shut down.
Opinion
- Author:
- Allan M. Block, MD
Publish date: September 6, 2022
Sometimes no amount of solid data will change the mind of someone who’s already made theirs up.
Opinion
- Author:
- Allan M. Block, MD
Publish date: August 30, 2022
Our current politicians favor a strategy of postponing Medicare reform and hoping that the next congress can fix it.
Opinion
- Author:
- Allan M. Block, MD
Publish date: August 22, 2022
Human communication can be flawed, and in medicine flawed communication can have consequences.
Opinion
- Author:
- Allan M. Block, MD
Publish date: August 15, 2022
Cracks in herd immunity have allowed polio to return.
Opinion
- Author:
- Allan M. Block, MD
Publish date: August 9, 2022
There is no such thing as a risk-free medical procedure.
Opinion
- Author:
- Allan M. Block, MD
Publish date: August 3, 2022
Fraud is not the nature of medicine, but isolated cases increase the need for vigilance across the board.
