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Mark Elliott, MD, FRCPC
Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death By Dr Nick Lane. W.W. Norton and Company, 2022. ISBN: 978-0-393-65148-5. Hardcover, 400 pages. When you were a medical student,... Read More
The amount of clinical research taking place is excessive.[1] Out of the 6 million articles published in a year, half are never cited and a good percentage of the cited articles are self-cited.[2] Would medicine be just... Read More
Thinking about upper-airway problems, three themes emerge. First, many health care practitioners, including doctors, dentists, chiropractors, physiotherapists, and nutritionists, are involved in treating patients with... Read More
Dr Ali Bouaziz died quite suddenly but not unexpectedly on 2 March 2020, just a few weeks shy of his 90th year, in his beloved Drummond Drive house in the trees. He had a unique personality and will be missed by all... Read More
The most famous quote about evolution has got to be Theodosius Dobzhansky’s, “Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution.” This applies to medical practice as well. We have all been taught that... Read More
Anesthesiologists take consciousness away from a patient before a surgical procedure and then bring consciousness back to the patient after the operation is finished. Consciousness has been an important topic in... Read More
Thanks for pointing out my error about monoamine oxidase being an enzyme rather than a receptor. As a practising anesthesiologist I don’t pay as much attention to pharmacological acronyms as I should. Psychedelics may... Read More
I couldn’t agree more with your cautionary note. Paul Stamets seems to be an extraordinary mycologist with dozens of patents to his name, but with enough publicity people like him can easily become gurus, which is not... Read More
There have been many headlines on CRISPR (clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats) technology lately. When a patient gets an upper respiratory tract infection from some virus, the body’s immune system... Read More
Some of us will remember turn-on-tune-in-drop-out Timothy Leary, the psychologist whose work on then-legal psychedelics in the 1960s got him fired from Harvard University. His subsequent arrest and the government’s... Read More