I hardly know where to begin. This is all too bizarre for me. If you’re a regular scanner of cash register magazines, you’ll be reading about Addyi, released by Big Pharma and approved for something called female hypoactive sexual desire disorder (HSDD), which is essentially no or low sex drive. This story is about a […]
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“Take These Pills Or You’ll Die!”
Six months ago, while visiting my 90-year-old Fox News/Don Imus devotee aunt in Florida, I was working out at the local health club and got into a conversation with a lean, muscular older guy who’d just finished his bench presses. I bemoaned the fact that there was so little to do in that part of […]
The Two-Bag Syndrome
During my training as a physician, and there’s no reason to believe this has appreciably changed for young doctors now, I was taught that if you saw a patient in your office for a medical problem of any sort she’d leave dissatisfied if she didn’t receive a prescription. “Reaching for your prescription pad,” the professor […]