Spurious Motivation

In a study published in October 2006, Dr. Claudia Henschke, a cancer researcher at Weill Cornell Medical College, and her collaborator, Dr. David Yankelevitz, made a significant statement to the world of cancer research when they indicated that 80 percent of lung cancer deaths could be prevented if CT scans were used more ubiquitously as [...]


Drinking Others’ Prescriptions

I was at a networking meeting the other day and speaking to a networking colleague of mine about my son. He had been sick with a scratchy throat and low-grade fever, not eating as well as he normally does, and we were understandably concerned. This woman, who happens to be a registered nurse, [...]