Do You Believe in HCQ for COVID-19? It Will Break Your Heart Milton Packer believes advocacy of the drug is practicing politics, not medicine May 06, 2020
Will Life and Medicine Go Back to Normal After COVID-19? Milton Packer has a surprising twist for those who yearn for "normalcy" Apr 29, 2020
Do You Want to Write a Letter of Recommendation That Succeeds? Milton Packer shows how to genuinely help Aug 21, 2019
Medicare for All: Would Patients and Physicians Benefit or Lose? Milton Packer issues an urgent call for practitioners to join the debate Jul 10, 2019
Do Physicians Still Get Invited to Patients' Funerals? Milton Packer wonders whether medicine is about health or about life May 22, 2019
My Advice to Early-Career Physicians: Don't Play It Safe! Milton Packer recommends a contrarian path for career development Apr 10, 2019
What I Learned During My 11-Year Sabbatical From Cardiology Milton Packer on why he decided to start and stop being a department chair Mar 13, 2019
Want to Know If Someone Is Manipulating Data? Milton Packer describes how to distinguish science from magic Feb 27, 2019
Physician Burnout? Last Week I Made My First 20-Year Plan Milton Packer has finalized dreams for his professional future Jan 23, 2019
Will Biomarkers Eventually Replace Physicians? Milton Packer imagines the end of nonprocedural medicine as we know it Jan 16, 2019
Does Johnson's Baby Powder Cause Cancer? Milton Packer says the $4.69-billion verdict is about anger, not medicine Jan 09, 2019
The Best Cardiovascular Drug Many Physicians Won’t Prescribe Milton Packer describes the rise and fall of one of our most effective medicines Dec 19, 2018
The Most Wonderful Mistake the FDA Ever Made Milton Packer explains how an FDA error enlightened the practice of medicine Dec 05, 2018
Med Schools' Business Model Is Officially Dead Milton Packer describes the slaughter of "academic" medicine Nov 28, 2018
Milton Packer: A Year of Opening Pandora’s Box 51˶ thanks Milton for another year of thought-provoking commentary Nov 21, 2018
First Clinical Trial in Medicine Changed World History Milton Packer revisits a 1747 medical landmark and its tortuous aftermath Aug 15, 2018
Is Industry Bribing Your Physician? Milton Packer wonders why Michael Cohen is not listed in Open Payments database Aug 08, 2018
Should Physicians Talk to the Lay Press About Research Studies? Milton Packer describes the perils of selling science to the public Jul 18, 2018
Do You Preach According to the Gospel of Saint Ablation? Milton Packer calls on electrophysiologists to embrace rigorous evidence interpretation Jun 06, 2018
How to Stop Direct-to-Consumer Prescription Drug Ads Milton Packer suggests a path to rein in a 20-year-old FDA policy May 23, 2018
Why Call for Doctor on the Plane If They're Just Going to Ignore You? Milton Packer recounts two very different experiences May 09, 2018
Shocker! Is Vioxx Coming Back... as an Orphan Drug? Milton Packer wonders whether its return represents innovation or opportunism May 02, 2018
When You Talk to Patients, Do You Look at Them or at a Computer? Milton Packer wonders whether some physicians are healers or replicants Apr 25, 2018
It's Official! Curing Patients Is Bad for Business Milton Packer describes the end result of profit-dominated drug development Apr 18, 2018
Does Anyone Read Medical Journals Anymore? Milton Packer wonders whether authors are wasting their time Mar 28, 2018
Do the Russians Always Cheat? Milton Packer provides a perspective on the meaning of truth in medicine and in life. Dec 13, 2017
Can Industry-Funded Research Be Trusted? Milton Packer wonders who is really trustworthy Dec 06, 2017
Who Actually Is Reviewing All Those Preauthorization Requests? Milton Packer thinks you should know how the system works Nov 08, 2017
Why Do We Have Honorary Degrees in Medicine? In this Revolution and Revelation, Milton Packer explains how nearly everyone can call themselves a "fellow of a society." Sep 06, 2017
Statins in the Drinking Water? Not so fast. In Revolution and Revelation, Milton Packer reveals a glaring inconsistency in the most recent battle in the ongoing statin wars Aug 16, 2017
Did the Nazis Invent Cardiac Catheterization? In this Revolution and Revelation, Milton Packer relates the story of a Nazi who won the Nobel Prize Aug 09, 2017
Does a New Hepatitis Vaccine Cause Heart Attacks? In this Revolution and Revelation, Milton Packer asks how you would answer this question Aug 02, 2017
Why Is Everyone Upset About California Senate Bill 790? The intentions are good, but the delivery is flawed explains Milton Packer in his latest Revolution and Revelation blog Jul 19, 2017
