Doc Gurley Outed–She’s the Anti-Claus

This week’s Sunday San Francisco Chronicle includes an article by Doc Gurley about how to give a gift to a homeless person. Heavily edited due to space constraints (despite the impressive amount of space they gave me–when I get inspired, I go for it, but there’s only so much space on a Sunday paper page…), […]

Most Explosive Medical News of 2007 Award

Alien Invasion of Humans Proven by Scientist

Sigourney Weaver was right

Buried in what Dave Barry calls the “mainstream media,” was an article with this happy-face headline: “Babies protect mothers against breast cancer.” What could be more warm and fuzzy than that?

However, if you, like […]

A Little Off The Top And Sides–Should You Get Circumcised For World AIDS Day?

No country in the world has done a more thorough job of circumcising it’s newborn boys than the United States. In many places, if you don’t put a Do Not Cross Crime Scene tape across your new son’s genitals, he’ll get whisked off and trimmed before you know it. And yet, here we are with […]

Yet Another Reason Why Money and Medicine Make Bad Bedfellows

First, here’s a practical (and important) financial article by Liz Pulliam Weston, titled Why Medical Debts Shouldn’t Count. Read it to find out about a vastly under-reported issue that is affecting thousands of lives: the recent, widespread selling of medical debt to collection agencies, often for pennies on the dollar. To add insult to injury, […]

Dave Barry’s Prostate

We love Dave Barry here at Doc Gurley (in a purely platonic, stalker fan, restraining-order kind of way). With teenager squeals and bouncing and hand-flapping, we share an actual response from His Daveness to Doc Gurley (O.M.G.) to a question I submitted to the Dave Barry For President Q&A Forum. Check it out while I […]

Black Friday (shudder) Health Tips

For those who started the (pre-dawn) day with a list of stores to hit, all I can say is…wow. A Walmart on Black Friday is the purest example of survival of the fittest ever devised. I’ll admit it up front, I’m not woman enough to Black Friday. I don’t believe the obviously false propaganda that […]