Opinion
- Author:
- F. Perry Wilson, MD, MSCE
Publish date: September 27, 2023
It’s time we acknowledge and support the people in our profession who seem to be suffering more than any of us: the aides, the techs, the support s...
Opinion
- Author:
- F. Perry Wilson, MD, MSCE
Publish date: September 20, 2023
Shouldn’t we allow people to get the tests they want, at least if they are willing to pay for it? Of course, it’s not quite that simple.
Opinion
- Author:
- F. Perry Wilson, MD, MSCE
Publish date: September 13, 2023
Would recipients who got blood from individuals who later on had brain bleeds, have brain bleeds themselves? The answer is yes, though with an aste...
Opinion
- Author:
- F. Perry Wilson, MD, MSCE
Publish date: September 7, 2023
Studies have actually shown that body temperature may be decreasing over time in humans.
Opinion
- Author:
- F. Perry Wilson, MD, MSCE
Publish date: September 5, 2023
The key element in surgeries of the cervical spine – trauma and complex spine surgery – is planning.
Opinion
- Author:
- F. Perry Wilson, MD, MSCE
Publish date: August 30, 2023
The screening tests are unlikely to help most people because most people will not die of the particular type of cancer being screened for. But it w...
News
- Author:
- F. Perry Wilson, MD, MSCE
Publish date: August 9, 2023
If you are going to get activity, push on the vigorous activity if you’re physically able to do it. And of course, layering in the muscle-strengthe...
Opinion
- Author:
- F. Perry Wilson, MD, MSCE
Publish date: August 3, 2023
Patients assigned to the highest dose of VX-548 had a statistically significant lower cumulative amount of pain in the 48 hours after surgery.
Opinion
- Author:
- F. Perry Wilson, MD, MSCE
Publish date: July 26, 2023
This is a space where AI can make some massive gains – not by trying to do radiologists’ jobs better than radiologists, but by extracting informati...
Opinion
- Author:
- F. Perry Wilson, MD, MSCE
Publish date: July 11, 2023
This is how these types of studies work; they tend to raise more questions than they answer.
Opinion
- Author:
- F. Perry Wilson, MD, MSCE
Publish date: June 27, 2023
“What else could this be?”
Opinion
- Author:
- F. Perry Wilson, MD, MSCE
Publish date: June 14, 2023
Clearly, this study lets us conclude that mask wearing at rest has less of an effect than mask wearing during exercise. But remember that, in reali...
Opinion
- Author:
- F. Perry Wilson, MD, MSCE
Publish date: May 31, 2023
The question is: Does receipt of a bivalent COVID vaccine booster prevent hospitalizations, ICU stay, or death?
Opinion
- Author:
- F. Perry Wilson, MD, MSCE
Publish date: May 9, 2023
Imagine a future when, at 30, you get your genome sequenced and doctors tell you what needs to be done to save your life.
Opinion
- Author:
- F. Perry Wilson, MD, MSCE
Publish date: May 3, 2023
The electrical patterns of the brains in these patients looked very similar to the patterns seen in dreaming humans, as well as in patients with&nb...
