Doctor of the Year
Last year the New York State Association for Rural Health honored me with the 2019 Gary Ogden MD Doctor of the Year award. I traveled to...
Covid and Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM)
In the mid 1970s, Karen and I attended a series of seminars on "oriental medicine" offered in Boston by Michio Kushi. I was soon to go...
Primum non nocere Ch 1
How many doctor-writers have tackled this? No, today I am not offering new insights into the iatrogenic harms we cause with our...
There's Nothing More I Can Do
This statement, when mindlessly used by a doctor to attack a patient's heart and soul, is always, without any exceptions, a lie, and...
VIRUS
Viruses are far more advanced forms of intelligence than any human mind will ever be able to understand. Microbiologists cannot say...
Kill As Few Patients As Possible
This is the title of a slim volume written in 1987 under a pseudonym, Oscar London, MD. I buy a few every so often to hand out to new,...
What Isn't Hurting You Today?...Medical Koan
A while back, I started asking patient-partners the question "What ISN'T bothering you today?", shortly after "How can I help you today?"...
The Plot Thickens
Dec 19, 2017 How does a mindful practitioner of any of the healing arts navigate these calamitous times? Children at jeopardy of losing...
Hero Worship
My list of patient heroes grows longer by the day. I share stories about them with friends and family, and have written a bit about them...
Prevent and Reverse Cognitive Decline
After an entire career of believing that cognitive decline, including Alzheimer's Disease, was irreversible, I came across Dale Beredsen,...