Peter Beck Kim
I was not an early prescriber of the GLP-1 agents, like Ozempic. But after a while, it became hard to argue with success. GLP-1 agents work, and they work for a long list of serious …
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(And male menopause, aka andropause) There’s something of a divide in the medical community. To give testosterone to men who maybe don’t need it, or not. It follows a deeper dividing line: …
Frank Herbert, author of Dune, wrote an obscure nonfiction paperback in 1980. “Without Me, You’re Nothing” was a before-its-time manifesto about the unavoidable primacy of the personal computer and …
There’s a line from an immunology book for laypersons that has always stuck with me. Paraphrasing: Studying immunology is like translating the tax code of Germany into …
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My mother is working through congestive heart failure right now. Missed out on her post-discharge medications for a week — long story — her compensated heart function decompensated, and back to the ER …
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I hope you had a safe, unburnt turkey Thanksgiving and are enjoying a relaxing Black Friday weekend. This last week for me has been a long one. Autumn has been marked by worsening shoulder …
