HealthSeptember 24, 2013
Requiem for a Hospital
Last night I participated in a requiem for St. Andrews Hospital in Boothbay Harbor, Maine, and for the lost innocence of rural communities.
Stories by Judy Stone
Judy Stone, MD is an infectious disease specialist, experienced in conducting clinical research. She is the author of Conducting Clinical Research, the essential guide to the topic. She survived 25 years in solo practice in rural Cumberland, Maryland, and is now broadening her horizons. She particularly loves writing about ethical issues, and tilting at windmills in her advocacy for social justice. As part of her overall desire to save the world when she grows up, she has become especially interested in neglected tropical diseases. When not slaving over hot patients, she can be found playing with photography, friends' dogs, or in her garden. Follow on Twitter @drjudystone or on her website.
August 27, 2013
Where’s the Real Danger from Infection This Summer?
Naegleria fowleri is a summertime villain, scary and sensational, the “Brain-eating Amoeba.” Even the name is villainous. It is an amoeba that lives in fresh water, especially warm water, and is a cause of brain infections, almost always resulting in death.
August 14, 2013
Antibiotic resistance-another view from the trenches
Remember the story of the elephant and the blind men? I feel I am revisiting it whenever I go back and work another stretch in the hospital as an infectious diseases physician.
July 25, 2013
uBiome: Ethical Lapse or Not?
uBiome's CEO, Jessica Richman, seems to me to be a great saleswoman who also excels at sounding innocent and playing the misunderstood victim in the ethical controversy surrounding her company.
HealthJuly 10, 2013
Breach of a Community's Trust
HealthJune 14, 2013
Minnesota Attorney General Confirms They Did Not Exonerate UMN in Markingson Death
HealthMay 24, 2013
Anti-Psychiatry Prejudice? A response to Dr. Lieberman
HealthMay 20, 2013
The s**t hits the fan - FDA, INDs, and fecal microbiota transplants
HealthMay 15, 2013
How Not to Run an Op-Ed Page
HealthMay 8, 2013
Yahrzeit - Reflections on Dan Markingson's Legacy
HealthApril 30, 2013
From Tel Aviv to Boston Bombings: Connections at TEDMED
HealthApril 11, 2013
A New University of Minnesota Mystery-The Curious Departure of Mark Rotenberg
HealthMarch 26, 2013
A Clinical Trial and Suicide Leave Many Questions: Part 6: The Run-Around, or Why I Now Call for an Independent Investigation of University of Minnesota
HealthMarch 19, 2013
Covering Clinical Trials: a message for journalists and critical readers
HealthMarch 12, 2013
A Clinical Trial and Suicide Leave Many Questions: Part 5: The Case of the Mysteriously Appearing Documents
HealthMarch 7, 2013
CDC's "Resistance Nightmare:" A View from the Trenches
HealthMarch 5, 2013
Drug Screens-and More Security Theater (Part 2)
HealthFebruary 19, 2013
Drug screens-any more than theater?
HealthFebruary 5, 2013
Of Citizen Science, Ethics, and IRBs the view from Science Online
HealthJanuary 24, 2013
Prosecutorial Excess: A Pattern of Abuse
HealthJanuary 15, 2013
An Elegy for Aaron
HealthJanuary 8, 2013
A Clinical Trial and Suicide Leave Many Questions: Part 4: The University of Minnesota's Response
HealthDecember 18, 2012
A Clinical Trial and Suicide Leave Many Questions: Part 3: Conflict of Interest
HealthDecember 13, 2012
A Clinical Trial and Suicide Leave Many Questions: Part 2: Investigator Responsibilities