Category Archives: Medicine
Kamikaze Cruise Ships
Written by Neil Kurtzman | 3rd April 2022The cruise ship industry is self destructing. Given the realities of the recent pandemic which has virtually destroyed the industry, the ship operators are desperate to get their customers back on board. They are requiring that all their crews and customers be vaccinated. This requirement is not unreasonable. But their next effort at reassuring their…
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COVID – 2 Years and Counting
Written by Neil Kurtzman | 17th February 2022You’d have to be entombed along with Radames and Aida not to know what’s happened to the world secondary to a virus that found its way out of Wuhan China to the farthest reaches of the planet. My purpose is not to rehash the facts of the pandemic, but rather to consider why the world…
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Eugene Dabezies, MD (1935-2021)
Written by Neil Kurtzman | 9th February 2022Gene Dabezies was my friend and colleague for the last 30 years. I came to know him as well as could anyone outside of his family. He had the most successful life I know of. What made his very long life unique was that he functioned at the highest levels in all the facets of…
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Cancer Statistics 2022
Written by Neil Kurtzman | 16th January 2022Every January the American Cancer Society publishes Cancer Statistics based on the most recent data available. The abstract from the report is immediately below. The entire report is available at the end of this article. Abstract: Each year, the American Cancer Society estimates the numbers of new cancer cases and deaths in the United States…
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What Really Happened in Wuhan – Book Review
Written by Neil Kurtzman | 8th January 2022Australian journalist Sharri Markson has written a book that seeks to find the source of the corona virus that has afflicted the world for more than two years. The subject has been so politicized from the very start such that any attempt to define its source will trouble many readers. Never has a medical and…
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Persistent Physical Symptoms Among French Adults During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Written by Neil Kurtzman | 5th January 2022Association of Self-reported COVID-19 Infection and SARS-CoV-2 Serology Test Results With Persistent Physical Symptoms Among French Adults During the COVID-19 Pandemic is the prolix title of a study just published in the JAMA Internal Medicine. The paper’s abstract is below. Basically, it says that if the patient believes that he has been infected with the…
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Time to Stop Testing Asymptomatic Subjects
Written by Neil Kurtzman | 17th December 2021COVID has made everybody a medical expert. Politicians, investment advisors, journalists, TV newsreaders all are full of analysis and advice about the virus now comfortably settled in throughout most of the world. In general our leaders and opinion setters seem unable to deal rationally with an epidemic that has been with us for two years….
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COVID – The Omicron Variant
Written by Neil Kurtzman | 28th November 2021As is typical of current events, the press and our medical “experts” are having conniptions over the inevitable appearance of yet another variant of the coronavirus. The latest such variant, named omicron in a fit of political correctness, is causing more distress to the physicians employed by the press than a bout of malignant constipation….
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COVID Data – Geography and Obesity
Written by Neil Kurtzman | 24th November 2021Below are some data concerning the COVID outbreak. They mostly speak for themselves. Observe the striking difference in the countries of tropical Africa compared to the developed world. The Africans are mostly unvaccinated and not dying in contradistinction to the US, etc. Then look at the data from the US and India. Lastly, observe the…
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COVID Vaccination in Children
Written by Neil Kurtzman | 10th November 2021The New England Journal of Medicine just published a study Evaluation of the BNT162b2 Covid-19 Vaccine in Children 5 to 11 Years of Age that reports phase 1 and 2 data about the vaccine in children. During the phase 1 study, a total of 48 children 5 to 11 years of age received 10 μg,…
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