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Today I went to the calling hours for a family friend, who was a physician to my family as well as to me when I was an adolescent, and who was also a fellow sailor with whom we all spent many happy days. Dr. Frederick Harrison Grabo was 87....

According to Adam Smith, people make choices that serve their enlightened self-interest. Truthfully, people also make a lot choices that are unenlightened, but that’s a problem for another blog! Today, let’s examine the question of why an...

 In 1993, an intrepid group of exercise physiologists, physical therapists and one physician (me) drafted the first edition of a textbook called Exercise Management of Persons with Chronic Diseases and Disabilities (CDD). Working on...

Reductionism vs Complexity

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In the 1968 science fiction thriller 2001: A Space Odyssey, written by writer Arthur C. Clark and the film directed by Stanley Kubrick, the computer named HAL 9000 was touted as being incapable of error...

A major flaw of the human mind is that it tends towards dichotomization - perceiving everything as two-sided: black vs white, hot vs cold, good vs evil, right vs wrong. The undesirable consequence is that we misperceive reality, which is...

"Go Outside and Play"!

Those 4 words were often the instructions I got when I was young. And, apparently, I was not the only one who was told to come inside when the street lights came on. Or so I learned from Bill Sells and Tom...

When there are lots of ways to do something, it’s a good bet that none of them work. Everyone uses a technique or tool if it really is superior. So with the internet, bookstore shelves and junk mail bins filled by peddlers selling motivation......

Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel published a ...

As 2015 opens, here are some thoughts on 5 challenges facing us in health care.

1) Adding Fuel to the Health Fire
America’s health care system provides the worst value in the developed world — we pay lots more and...