Because Good Medicine Deserves Better Explanations
In medical school, they had taught him that numbers don’t lie.
Tonight, the numbers felt like they were whispering through clenched teeth —
speaking in halves, withholding the rest.
He printed the report, folded it twice, and slipped it into his pocket.
A contradiction he wasn’t ready to resolve.
A question he knew he would carry for years.
Most of what I write here on Doc’s Opinion sticks pretty closely to cardiology — that’s my usual beat, after all. But every now and then, a study comes along that pulls me out of that lane. This is one of those. The paper published recently in Nature Metabolism looks at how a mother’s diet … Read more
New medical studies make headlines daily, fill our inboxes, and circulate on social media, often with bold and conflicting claims. One study suggests coffee protects against heart disease; another warns it raises blood pressure. A new drug is hailed as a game-changer for weight loss—until a follow-up study questions its long-term safety. With so much … Read more