Monthly Archives: July 2018
The First Medical Harvey Award
Written by Neil Kurtzman | 29th July 2018The MHA is named for Harvey Kurtzman (no relation) the founder and first editor of Mad magazine. This award is not to be confused with the Harvey Awards for achievements in comic books. It (the MHA) is given to the authors of any paper in the scientific literature (not including the Journal of Irreproducible Results)…
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CMS – Proposed New Physician Fee Schedule
Written by Neil Kurtzman | 26th July 2018If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it’s free PJ O’Rourke CMS (the federal agency that runs Medicare and Medicaid) is proposing a new physician fee schedule. The three page article that summarizes the proposed changes is hard for my ossified brain to decode, so I…
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Science and Knowledge: The More We Learn the Less We Know
Written by Neil Kurtzman | 22nd July 2018The Universe is not only stranger than you think; it’s stranger than you can imagine. Richard Feynman The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity. WB Yeats I take a walk everyday that passes me by the side entrance to a large building. The door is set at the back…
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Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus and an Artificial Pancreas
Written by Neil Kurtzman | 17th July 2018Clinical endocrinology can be defined in one sentence. It is the study of diseases that are characterized by too much or too little of a hormone or by over or under responsiveness to a hormone. That’s it. The rest is detail. Type 1 diabetes is due to the lack of insulin secondary to autoimmune impairment…
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Antonio Cortis
Written by Neil Kurtzman | 13th July 2018Antonio Cortis 1891-1952 was a Spanish tenor with a beautiful spinto voice capable of singing both the light and heavy roles in the Italian and French repertory. Born on a ship in the Mediterranean, he gave Valencia, where he was raised, as his native city. He initially studied voice at the Madrid Conservatory. After a…
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Folic Acid and Psychosis
Written by Neil Kurtzman | 7th July 2018The Journal of the American Medical Association has a paper thus far only published online – Association of Prenatal Exposure to Population-Wide Folic Acid Fortification With Altered Cerebral Cortex Maturation in Youths – that is both interesting and a big stretch. Government mandated folic acid fortification of enriched grain products has been in force for…
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Bring Back The Abacus
Written by Neil Kurtzman | 5th July 2018The complete ingestion of the modern world by the computer has putatively made life easier and allegedly added to the variety and plenty of life’s pleasant experiences. Except when it hasn’t. Yesterday Walgreens informed me that I had a prescription ready for pickup. To make life easier for me they gave me a link to…
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Benjamin Bernheim
Written by Neil Kurtzman | 2nd July 2018Benjamin Bernheim is a young French tenor who was raised in Geneva and trained at the Lausanne Conservatory. He joined the Young Artists Program at the Zurich Opera and recently has made Debuts in London, Milan, and Chicago. He has a beautiful lyric tenor that seems ideal for the great French tenor roles – the…
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