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A round-up of the latest news
April 10, 2024
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Do No Harm
June 11, 2015
An amazing interview by Terry Gross, Host of NPR program Fresh Air on the recent publication of Dr Henry Marsh’s book “Do No Harm”. On this podcast, Terry uses her unique style in a fascinating
Talking with future MD’s
May 26, 2015
From J D Faccinetti – Berkeley, CA – May 2015. Last week I met another group of great young people about to complete their first year of medical school. This is one of those events
Doctors, patients, research and teaching
May 20, 2015
From Lewis S Blevins, Jr MD – A “triple threat” used to be a term to describe the consummate academic physician who, second to none, possessed excellent teaching skills, demonstrated a successful productive research program,
From Berkeley Wellness: Can you trust Health News?
April 27, 2015
Reporting health news isn’t easy, especially when journalists have short deadlines and limited space to parse research that’s frequently complex, nuanced, and laced with caveats. On top of that, there’s often the temptation—for scientists, press
“Can’t you just look at my labs?”
April 15, 2015
An Op Ed form Lewis S Blevins, Jr. M.D. – on the review of laboratory results….good medicine? I couldn’t tell you the number of times each year I hear that question posed by patients who
An overview of anterior hypopituitarism.
March 9, 2015
From Lewis S. Blevins, Jr. MD – I define hypopituitarism as the partial or complete deficiency of one or more anterior pituitary hormones. Panhypopituitarism is, of course, deficiency of all of the anterior pituitary
I Have a Tumor…So Now What? The Mental and Emotional Side of Pituitary Disorders
March 2, 2015
An article from Marriage and Family Therapist, Mental Health expert and author Linda M. Rio, MA, LMFT – As a mental health clinician my job is to listen to the sometimes intense and very personal emotions
A featured essay by Dr. Blevins on the Art of Medicine in this month’s issue of Operative Neurosurgery
March 2, 2015
The March 15th issue of Operative Neurosurgery features an article by Dr Lewis Blevins on the Art of Medicine. You can go to the publication’s website to read the article or download a PDF here. In
The complexities of diagnosing pituitary disorders
February 22, 2015
From Lewis S Blevins, Jr. MD – Most of us know of the complexity of the hypothalamic-pituitary and target gland systems in health and disease. Further, the target gland hormones are carried in the blood
What constitutes a Pituitary Center of Excellence?
December 10, 2014
From Lewis S. Blevins Jr, MD – I delivered an address on this topic in 2008. Here are the main themes extracted from a summary of a document that I prepared for the working
Unusual masses in the region of the pituitary
December 9, 2014
From Lewis S Blevins Jr, MD – Whenever we see unusual masses in the region of the pituitary we often think or ask ourselves: Could this be a blood vessel abnormality? Could this be an
Your pituitary surgery: What does the pathologist do?
November 24, 2014
From Lewis S Blevins, Jr. MD – Pathologists are the mystery men and women behind the scenes in your healthcare. You will never meet them. You might see their name on a report or two