Category: Op-Ed

When Bad Doctors Happen to Good Patients

August 31, 2015- The NYT has an Op-Ed today by some malpractice lawyers urging a new law to be passed in New York to expand the time frame for filing malpractice suits. Read more »

Thoughts on the golf swing

August 18, 2015- by Steven E. Greer, MD

I thought that Tiger Woods, in his prime, was playing the best golf that a human could possibly play. Read more »

A modern medical wonder finishes second in the U.S. Open golf tournament

Erik Compton at US OpenJune 15, 2014- By Steven E. Greer, MD

34-year-old Erik Compton finished tied for second in the United States Open golf tournament. That was a good accomplishment by any standard, but it was also a genuine feat of modern medicine and surgery because he is living on his third heart. Read more »

How to handle a defamatory online review of your medical practice

 August 13, 2015- By Steven E. Greer, MD

I still have active medical licenses, but only treat friends and family. I have no office and no “practice” to speak of. Therefore, I found it quite odd that the online doctor-shopping Read more »

Book review of “Fat Chance” by Robert H. Lustig, MD

February 9, 2013 (20,000 people have read this article as of July 24, 2015)

Book Review by Steven E. Greer, MDFat Chance cover

How did our ancient ancestors evolve from being pure meat eating carnivore hunters into grain fed farmers, and which diet is healthier? With nearly 7 Billion people on Read more »

Dr. Sanjay Gupta caught exaggerating his surgical exploits

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July 9, 2015- CNN’s fame-seeking Dr. Gupta has been caught exaggerating his “life-saving” surgical exploits. Like fellow TV-doctors, such as Dr. Oz and Dr. Snyderman, this TV doctor gave up medical ethics long ago in order to be sensational and famous. Read more »

Doctors complain to Columbia about Dr. Oz

Update April 21, 2015- By Steven E. Greer, MD

As a direct result of our posting of the letter, below, the New York Times then national TV news have picked up this story. The bad press forced Dr. Oz to make a statement on his TV show that he “Will not be Read more »

The Netflix Late Reviewer: American Sniper missed the mark

TV-screen-with-feetJuly 4, 2015- by Steven E. Greer, MD

I finally saw the acclaimed Clint Eastwood film American Sniper. Bradley Cooper played the character of decorated Navy SEAL sniper Chris Kyle, for which he was nominated Read more »

The super cool new drug: Marijuana

May 31, 2015- By Steven E. Greer, MD

I was watching Green Day give their Rock and Roll Hall of Fame acceptance speech and the singer made some references to smoking pot, as if it was his generation’s thing. I have wondered to myself Read more »

Dr. Oz “Lose 20 lbs in 14 days”

Dr Oz diet magazine

May 24, 2015- We spotted this egregious quackery in the Rite Aid pharmacy. Read more »

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