“Back to School” usually signals relief for parents, but dismay for teens and younger children. Traditionally, it marks the end of lazy s...

This was published a few weeks ago in my local paper, but the message remains unchanged Shutdowns and shelter orders due to COVID-19 are ...

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When patient data or medical conditions don’t quite add up, I default to further investigation. For instance, when a healthy person who h...

A good friend recently asked me "Is the coronavirus virus epidemic and all these precautions all overblown?" Certainly without local cont...

She looked me in the eyes and asked quietly, “Dr Hill, am I going to be OK?” Eyes can communicate plenty on their own without words or an...

I wanted to be an ER doc from my first day at medical school. Not because of the schedule, or the shift work grind, or the paperwork. But...

I work as an emergency room physician. Before the current pandemic, I had few worries about going to the ER. In fact, I like the pace, va...

Within minutes of one another, two separate patients from a nearby nursing home arrived in acute respiratory distress at a local tertiary...

The Hippocratic hypocrisy The medical community message sold by pharmaceutical companies, peddled by health care providers, and unwitting...