
A Yank’s Jubilee
Despite the erosion of British international stature and the predominance of egalitarian world views, the enormity of the crowd and its enthusiasm reflect the Queen’s personal popularity.
Daniel Stone is Regional Medical Director of Cedars-Sinai Valley Network and a practicing internist and geriatrician with Cedars Sinai Medical Group.

Despite the erosion of British international stature and the predominance of egalitarian world views, the enormity of the crowd and its enthusiasm reflect the Queen’s personal popularity.

The Blackmun opinion represented the middle way, the consensus approach still supported by most Americans and highly defensible under the law.

Both to serve as an example and avoid the taint of hypocrisy, I try to follow the health practices I recommend.

Even prior to COVID-19 ours has not been an era for facing stark reality.

The contagiousness of the omicron strain and the holiday parties held by those weary of COVID restrictions generated staggering numbers of new infections.

If milder variants do gain predominance, the pandemic may be gradually heading toward new status as an endemic illness resembling a mild flu or cold.

After nearly two years of the pandemic, doctors like me need a break.

My wife issued an edict nixing our attendance at her family’s annual holiday gathering this year.

I teach residents and medical students to be careful about using the word “forever.” Illnesses always evolve and bothersome symptoms rarely persist for the long run, at least not in their original form.

The aggressive spread of the Delta virus is a clarion call for the unvaccinated, as it is for the FDA.