Monthly Archives: March 2010
The President and Defensive Medicine
Written by Neil Kurtzman | 8th March 2010The President recently had his annual physical exam. His Doctor, Jeffrey Kuhlman, is setting the standard for defensive medicine. His only patient, a healthy 48 year old man, was subjected to whole body electron beam tomography and a virtual colonoscopy. The former has no accepted medical use which is why Medicare and commercial insurance don’t…
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Mutti, Sinopoli, and the Prologue to Attila
Written by Neil Kurtzman | 6th March 2010Riccardo Mutti, who made his house debut in the Met’s current run of Verdi’s Attila, enjoys a reputation as an insightful conductor of Verdi’s operas. I’ve never been able to understand his high standing as a Verdian. His conducting of the master’s works has always seemed to me to be rigid, overly forceful, and lacking…
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Cancer Society Stops Urging Doctors to Offer PSA Test
Written by Neil Kurtzman | 4th March 2010The American Cancer Society has finally joined just about every other organization that makes screening recommendations. It now warns about the limitations of the PSA test for prostate cancer. This subject has been covered repeatedly here so I won’t repeat myself. The problem is that PSA testing yields many false positives and identifies “cancers” that…
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Pilobolus Dance Theater at the Allen Theater
Written by Neil Kurtzman | 3rd March 2010The Pilobolus Dance Theater gave a single performance in Lubbock last night (March 2, 2010) at Texas Tech’s Allen Theater. The group traces its ancestry back to Dartmouth College in 1971. Its dances (an inadequate word to describe what they do) are characterized by walking running, contortions, gymnastics, dance, athletics, and coordinated movements which words…
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