Yair Elman, Igor Elman, M.D. In the era of instantaneous digital information dissemination, online platforms have become pivotal in shaping (mis)perceptions and guiding clinical approaches to the opioid addiction crisis, presenting new challenges and therapeutic opportunities. In the late 1970s, an Associate Professor of Medicine at Boston University and a graduate student who were working […]
Leo Sher, M.D. My article, “Suicide in individuals with no psychiatric disorders-what makes you vulnerable?” was published in the QJM: An International Journal of Medicine online ahead of print on December 9, 2023 (1). A summary of my article is below: Globally, hundreds of thousands of people die by suicide every year. Suicides are usually […]
Leo Sher, M.D. My article, “The uncounted casualties of war: suicide in combat veterans” was published in the QJM: An International Journal of Medicine online ahead of print on October 17, 2023 (1). A summary of my article is below: Military conflicts are ubiquitous. There are a lot of combat veterans around the world. Suicidality […]
Rana Anwar, M.D., Steven Lippmann, M.D. Introduction: Genetic testing for Huntington’s Disease (HD) offers a precise diagnosis but raises many questions. These include privacy concerns to complex family dynamics; the impact of HD testing extends beyond individual choices. There are clinical dilemmas surrounding HD genetic testing that require thoughtful consideration. Discrimination /Privacy: One of the […]
Amrit Kahlon, M.D., Adil Khan, M.D., Steven Lippmann, M.D. […]
Steven Lippmann, M.D. There are concerns nation-wide about not having the latest interventional psychiatric treatment options available for clinical prescribing. For just one single example, intranasal esketamine is not uniformly present in some healthcare formularies. There are instances where financial, clinical, and/or other administrative hurdles block this new pharmacotherapy even to hospital emergency medicine departments. […]
Steven Lippmann, M.D. I bet that most of you have never heard of kratom. Well, it is an opioid type of drug widely available in this country with little restriction … yes, surprising ! Already used by millions of people, its widening distribution is again in the news recently as a public health hazard and […]
Chase Bauman, B.S., B.A., Steven Lippmann, M.D. Is Alzheimer’s Disease bad? Yes, … it robs people of cognitive abilities, global function, gait, and can induce depressive and/or paranoid features. Do we want to cure? Yes, … but we want one that is effective, safe, available, affordable, and approved by regulatory authorities after a thorough scientific […]
Steven Lippmann, M.D. Juneteenth What about Juneteenth? This holiday commemorates June 19, 1865, one month after the end of the war between the United States of America and the Confederate States of America. On that day, in Galveston, Texas, US Major General Gordon Granger sailed into the harbor and later delivered a message to Texans […]
Jacob M. Appel, M.D., J.D. Every first-year law student is likely aware of the venerable legal maxim, popularized by Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes in Northern Securities Co. v. United States, that “hard cases make bad law.” In other words, a particularly disturbing set of facts or events may lead well-intentioned judges to make […]
