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I hate cars. But I love the experience of driving down the freeway, humming a tune,chin-bobbing along to the music with my daughters. Some of life’s most profound, intimate conversations only take place when you’re strapped next to someone, facing front. So then why do I hate cars? See,there’s just this teensy weensy public health… […] One of the more interesting articles I wrote a couple of years ago was about panel size. No not THAT kind of panel – and not THAT one either! In this case panel size means the number of patients that a doctor in practice carries as their active patient load. If a doctor has say […] A couple of years ago I wrote a popular post about how much gluten is too much if you are gluten intolerant. Since that time, the amount of information about gluten intolerance has exploded and it is easy to find gluten free foods in stores as well as restaurants that specialize in handling gluten intolerant […] Over the past three years on my blog and on SFGate I have written about vitamin D several times. We are just beginning to scratch the surface of how valuable and important it has been to our health all along and why it is important that we maintain the right level even if our modern […] This year, the euphemistically named San Francisco City Clinic celebrates 100 years of diagnosing and treating sexually transmitted diseases. That’s 10 decades of inspecting orifices and creating cutting-edge new media, from all the way back when old media was shockingly new. And City Clinic did it all while making sexual health sound fun and, well…sexy. […] How many people are homeless before they enter prison? How many leave prison with no fixed destination? Of the 70 percent of released prisoners who return to prison, what proportion are homeless? If only for public safety reasons, you might assume the correctional system would want to know those numbers. But surprisingly, the California Department […] |
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