White Coat Underground
Musings on the intersection of science, medicine, and culture
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PalMD is a practicing internist in the Great Lakes region of the U.S.. Aside from the great joy he finds in his family and his work, he likes communicating some of that joy to others. He has a special interest in the ways patients---and we are all patients at one time or another---are deceived by charlatans. He aims to change the world, one reader at a time. Previous writings can still be found here, and here. I also write twice a month for Science-Based Medicine
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- What else does Dr. Kaiser have to offer?
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- Stranger than you can imagine
- Submitted to a Candid World
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- What's the Harm?
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About
Last updated 23 April 2009
White Coat Underground is a blog about a lot of things, but whose
byline is "musings on the intersection of science, medicine, and culture."
If you want to get a better idea of what we're about here, come on in and
take a look around.
I am a board-certified internist. How do you know that? You don't,
really. Any personal medical issues the reader may have should be referred to
the reader's physician. If the reader freely chooses to use some random
anonymous blog to make medical decisions, well, that would be just foolish.
I don't give advice here. My posts represent my own opinions, thoughts,
etc. and no one else's. Neither my hospital, partners, university, nor
anyone else has approved of anything I write. The information in my posts is
intended for discussion purposes and not as recommendations on how to
diagnose or treat illnesses. My writings do not claim to represent anyone's
opinions but my own.
My blog contains a great deal of medical information, most of which
is sourced and can be easily looked up and verified. Anyone using this
space to advance their own pet medical ideas or to advocate wildly
non-standard medical ideas will be warned and possibly banned.
If you make wildly bizarre health claims, be prepared to
back them up. It is not my responsibility to disprove every wild claim
that comes my way.
I write all of the posts on this blog unless otherwise noted.
As commenting is an essential part of the dialog encouraged by
blogging I will allow commenters great leeway in
posting content. I stand by the accuracy of the medical information I
present in my posts, but not what is contained in the comments. The
appearance of a comment should in no way be confused for an endorsement. I
rarely delete or censor comments (the exception being when I feel they
have outright dangerous or hateful content). Commenting is an integral part of a weblog,
and I will always allow it here, but none of the comments should be contrued
as offering valid medical advice.
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Confidentiality is more important than any other principle in medical writing.
I always change significant data about clinical cases, which can include
gender, place, temporal relationships, and other potentially identifying
data. Cases are often amalgams of different patients' stories.
Please remember that any information you submit through comments
or email are inherently un-secure. If you wouldn't shout it from
the rooftops, don't send it to me or post it in a comment. That being said,
I will never intentionally divulge personal information or contact
information of our visitors, with the following exception:
if you make threatening comments, or use the comment thread to try to sell
something, I will, at my discretion, reveal whatever I wish.
The following is a good guide to commenting on blogs: type whatever
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I do not answer medical questions by mail. Ever.
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