Physicians treat the chart rather than the patient (some estimates put 44% of ER physician time as spent on charting), and many electronic records are walled off from each other.

In a clinical world discovering a new mania for guidelines, it’s important to ask about the “standard of care.”

A giant experiment is now getting tried on the public, driven by political passion and fabulous profits – three Exchange traded funds already exist for stocks of marijuana companies.

The default party to benefit from a revival of American competitive capitalism is the Democrats.

Medicare is being ground down by groups that see opportunities for enormous new profits and power, and will not stop until they to get them.

One of the most promising treatments now available is immunotherapy – helping to teach our own immune system how to kill the cancers it’s failed to keep at bay.

Biology is finally getting its due as an information science, just as physics and chemistry have.

Your body is not just fats and proteins, bones and skin. It’s information. How you process the material of life changes life. And it can do so greatly for the better.

The information system that is the body creates not just pleasure and pain, but the very flavor of life itself.

Often guidelines will be life saving. Sometimes they will be the playthings of corporations that will use their profits to help buy pliant politicians.