Informed Consent: Still Relevant during a Pandemic
What patients seek is not scientific knowledge that doctors hide, but existential authenticity each person must find on her own. Getting...
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1/5/2021 Contact Tracing and Assigning Blame
The 1970 film, M*A*S*H, includes a scene where Major Frank Burns, a pious surgeon, angrily blames an orderly for the death of one of his...
10/26/2020 COVID INFECTION FATALITY RATES
The Infection fatality rate (IFR) has been debated since the beginning of the pandemic. This number represents the percentage of people...
10/11/2020 To Public Health Officials: Focused Protection is Following the Science
Academia has finally arrived and found the courage to remind public health policymakers of fundamental principles essential to protecting...
10/1/2020 Job Syndrome
It’s not complacency: It’s a virus Let’s call it the “Job syndrome”. Recall the biblical story in the Old Testament about a righteous man...
8/27/2020 COVID Modeling and Graph Mishaps
As a hospitalist, I have been interested in the CDC’s Covid-19 forecasts for hospitalizations. There are multiple entities that provide...
8/23/2020 COVID-19
8/23/20 "People will forgive you for being wrong, but they will never forgive you for being right—especially if events prove you right...
8/6/2020 COVID disease modeling taking precedence over current data and research
The word “specious” is an adjective that is defined as superficially plausible, but wrong. My recent proposal for a more targeted public...
7/31/2020 COVID-19 Presentation
Please use the audio player beneath each slide to listen to the presentation.
7/16/2020 A Family Physician’s COVID-19 Policy Suggestion to Our Governor
On July 8th, I wrote a letter to the governor and my state representatives with the request that they reconsider our state’s public...
7/12/20 COVID information that you likely did not learn about last week from the news
On July 7th, data provided by the Oregon Health Authority reported that the 7-day average for new hospitalizations were 7 new patients...
6/24/2020 COVID-19 and Public Health: A Broader Perspective is Required
Considering the pandemic restrictions and tracking protocols going forward, I want to share an interview with Dr. Eileen De Villa, the...
6/8/2020 It is time to move faster towards normalcy
Recently, our attention may have been diverted from the daily pandemic headlines and COVID case counts to news of protests and social...
5/20/2020 COVID ANTIBODY TESTING UPDATE
Since March, I have been very interested in any data from SARS-CoV-2 antibody testing. We were hopeful that this information would...
5/1/2020 Dr. Giesecke and Sweden’s Approach to the Pandemic
I have attached an interview below with the Swedish epidemiologist and infectious disease expert, Dr. Johan Giesecke that took place on...
4/28/2020 Science should not be suppressed
Over the course of the last two weeks of the COVID-19 pandemic, I have shared the scientific observations and opinions of Dr. John...
4/22/2020 Science is a Discipline based upon Skepticism not Consensus
I have found the following two YouTube links interesting as we navigate alternative solutions to our current pandemic. The first is an...
4/18/2020 COVID-19 Policy in an Era of Uncertainty
(This letter was sent to the Governor and elected representatives) COVID-19 Policy in an era of uncertainty At this time, public policy...
4/6/2020 COVID-19 by the Numbers as of
The last time I posted on March 23, 2020, there was 1 documented case of COVID-19 in Douglas County. I indicated that there would be...
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