Interestingly, I believe that I was the first person to create a Wikipedia page about Classical Chinese Medicine. Since then, it has been rewritten, co-opted and sometimes even just erased!...

One of the things I would like to do as a physician is help people who have various types of cancer.  I realize that even this statement will be regarded by some as problematic. 

To this day, some of my most popular posts involve the organ clock.  I find the organ clock to be fascinating, but lately I haven't thought that much about it.

When talking about the five elements, particularly as applied to the organ systems of Chinese medicine, it’s easy to find an angle from which to proclaim the supremacy of any of the elements.

Hey everyone, Well, the winter holidays are upon us here in the Northern hemisphere. For those of you in school, that means you’ve probably got some free time coming up. Why not use some of that to get going on the honorable project of learning to...

Hey everyone, I’m going to jump on the Podcast wagon again.  In this episode: Why am I doing a podcast AGAIN? Talking about starting a business To take insurance or not to take insurance : a one-sided debate It’s fun to use my microphone again Yes,...

I have to admit to some weirdness around the concept of “constitution.” This is absolutely unfounded, I have no clinical or theoretical information to back up my feeling. I think I’ve just seen this concept be misused. Once you get an idea in your head...

I’ve been a little slow out of the gate with this one, folks, and I’m sorry about that. Richard Goodman, author of the excellent Classical Chinese Medical Texts: Learning to Read the Classics of Chinese Medicine Vol I has released Volume II of the...

Today, on a walk I was taught an important lesson by some late migrating geese. In the late summer and autumn, we get a whole lot of geese flying overhead in my neighborhood. We live pretty close to a couple of wildlife refuges, one being specifically...