Learning from Our Errors Karen S. Sibert, MD, the Associate Editor of the CSA Bulletin wonders in the Spring, 2010 issue about “When is the best time for mistakes?” Back in the 1990s, my husband and I spent a year working at one of the largest hospitals in West Virginia. The patients were the nicest people in […]

On my semiannual trip to the dentist’s office, the hygienist casually mentioned that her husband has had intractable coughing for the past ten years. It was worse after exercise and during the night. He’d been to a doctor who felt allergy skin tests were in order. At another doctor, he was given an inhaler to […]

We have always known that stress can aggravate asthma. Stress can aggravate a lot of illnesses, from coronary heart disease to peptic ulcer disease. But can stress cause disease where none previously exists? From 1994 to 1996, researchers at the Channing Laboratory at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, studied 496 children recruited from […]

The Regulatory Mess Hal Grotke, MD, asked, “Should I Trust the Government?” on the President’s Page of the March 2010 Bulletin of the Humboldt-Del Norte County Medical Society. Statutory laws and regulations have been hard on us, to say nothing of case law. Thanks to Medicare, if we choose to provide medical care for people over 65 […]

The Devil’s Details Dr. Stephen Kamelgarn revisits the “Devil’s Glossary” in the January issue of The Bulletin of the Humboldt-Del Norte Medical Society. Here are some items at the start of the alphabet. This was a guide originally published by the CMA back in 1993 (during the Clinton Health Care Reform debacle) as an aid for medical […]

Down with a Case of the Flu. Emily Dalton, MD, wrote her final President’s Message in the December issue of The Bulletin of the Humboldt-DelNorte County Medical Society. It was on “Health Care Reform” and she was in bed with the flu. …It is hard to believe that when I started the State of California was seriously […]

Words Make a Difference Sonoma Medicine devotes the summer issue to Cross Cultural Medicine. This article, “Care in Translation,” is by Rick Flinders, MD. Don Felipe was one of the campesinos I got to know best during the two years I lived in South America. He was short and dark-eyed and was one of the wisest farmers among […]

Health Reform? Build on our History. Stephen Kamelgarn, MD, Editor of The Bulletin of the Humboldt-Del Norte County Medical Society gives us his changing views of single payer healthcare in the February 2009 issue. His article is entitled, “Can We Get There from Here? Should we Listen to our History?” Over the years I’ve written a number […]

Hospitals have convinced doctors and the public that getting larger is more efficient. Many of our local hospitals are selling themselves to large hospital systems, telling the medical staff that service to them and their patients will be just as personal. Others are just getting larger under the name of efficiency and improved ability to […]

What doctors were writing about a half century ago. The Yesteryear column during 1997 gave brief monthly reviews of what happened years ago in our medical society. Although our society was established in 1868, the written record occurred some 82 years later. The official publication of our society began in September, 1950 as “The Bulletin.” […]