Dr. G Opines
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Preventive Medicine
WHAT LABS ARE IMPORTANT FOR SCREENING?
When you’re 25 years old and want a check up and some screening blood tests, what should you have done?…
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Cancer
CHEMOTHERAPY: HAIR LOSS IS PREVENTABLE
Cancer is a terrible disease. The symptoms of cancer range from headache, nausea, and vomiting, to jaundice, pain, and neuropathy,…
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Healthcare Policy
MODERNIZING MEDICAL EDUCATION
I have written about medical education on numerous occasions over the last 7 or 8 years. It’s an important subject…
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Human Interest
READING—THE MENTAL SPARK
You may remember the 1972 slogan, ”A mind is a terrible thing to waste.” It was part of a public…
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Human Interest
INDIANA BEATS (?) MICHIGAN
This week’s commentary on Indiana University football will be brief. The 2026 version of the IU offense is terrible. It…
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Drugs & Medications
FOREIGN DRUGS HARDER TO GET
The cost of medical care is outrageous. Health insurance premiums, co-pays, professional fees, inpatient hospital charges, and prescription drug prices…
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Drugs & Medications
MANAGING BENIGN PROSTATE SYMPTOMS
The prostate gland is one the more common anatomic structures to cause older men problems. Usually, around age forty, sometimes…
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Diabetes
EVERYONE WANTS THEIR GLP-1 TO BE THE ONE
The two big players in the GLP-1 market are the Danish pharmaceutical company Novo Nordisk, and Indiana-based Eli Lilly and…
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Gastrointestinal Diseases
WHAT TO DO ABOUT HEMORRHOIDS
Hemorrhoids are a very bothersome problem. Bothersome from the standpoint of pain, bleeding, and difficulty having a bowel movement. And…
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Drugs & Medications
SIDE EFFECTS OF STATINS
I have always downplayed the side effects of statins. In my mind, the benefits of statin drugs are so important,…
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