LIVE LONGER…..EAT SPICY FOODS

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A recent study from China shows that people who eat spicy foods appear to be healthier and live longer. In a survey involving 500,000 Chinese men and women, there was a inverse correlation between spicy foods and all cause mortality, heart disease, cancer and respiratory infections. So…besides being tasty to those ‘chili lovers’ out there, …

WHAT WOULD DR SOTOS SAY ABOUT THIS BLUE TONGUE?

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Dr. John Sotos was a former classmate at Hopkins, and is known as Dr. Zebra for his knowledge of arcane medical conditions and diagnosis.  Sound familiar…like someone on TV ?  That’s because he is the ‘real life’ Dr. House, and was the medical adviser for the TV show. What is the diagnosis of this patient …

SCORECARDS….GET YOUR SCORECARDS HERE!

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ProPublica is an independent, non-profit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest.    ProPublica has just come out with a simple to read scorecard for surgeons….to share Medicare information on surgical outcomes that the government is collecting. This information is useful, to the extent that it provides a ‘ballpark’ estimate of a surgeon’s …