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Fred Bass, MD, DSc
Nicotine feeds the primitive brain, so when smokers try to quit (using their frontal lobes), they are at war with themselves. New research gives us more ammunition to help smokers win the battle. Some of your... Read More
Aphorisms, even about prevention, can be annoying. However, if we ignore the physician’s role in prevention, we fail to maximize physicians’ potential productivity. For example, since cigarette smoking accounted for 7%... Read More
In our present system, without including clinical prevention, front-line physicians have too much to do and too little time in which to do it. To add to the primary care workload the clinical preventive measures that... Read More