My Virtual Reading Room

The case of RaDonda Vaught highlights a double standard for nurses and physicians, from StatNews

(Indeed, I found both of these cases rather surprising, especially in comparison to each other...)

Canadian doctors are prescribing free passes to national parks to treat patients

She Invented Adulting. Her Life Fell Apart. She Wants You to Know That’s Okay., from VanityFair

Best-selling author Kelly Williams Brown reflects on coining that now dreaded phrase, her 700 worst days, and the millennial mythos of having it all together.

Why is it so hard to control our appetites? A doctor’s struggles with giving up sugar, by Raj Telhan, from The Guardian

We’ve become convinced that if we can eat more healthily, we will be morally better people. But where does this idea come from?

Eating Avocado Linked to Lower Cardiovascular Risk, from Medscape


And to finish off, also from Medscape:

This Week in Cardiology, aka, Dr. M. tells it like it is:


"...Espresso and TC

• Espresso Coffee Associated With Increased Total Cholesterol

The journal Open Heart published a nutritional epidemiology observational study on different types of coffee and their association with total cholesterol. I have several observations.

• We have enough coffee, blueberry, chocolate, raspberry, etc studies. I’ve written about this before.
• This world has a lot of health problems we need solved. These sorts of studies do not move the needle.
• Because of huge amounts of confounding plus recall bias of food questionnaires, studies like this that look at one macronutrient with observational methods is simply not going to advance our knowledge base. It’s not worth the effort...."