The Future? One of my patients recently told me “I don’t worry about the future. I don’t see a future.” We have been living through a new Age of Anxiety. It does and does not resemble the times W.H. Auden wrote about in his 1948 Pulitzer Prize winning poem of that name. Auden had written […]
Who’s Using All Those Sleeping Pills? (10/3/12)
So Who Is Using Sleeping Pills? Lots of people – especially people not prescribed them. According to the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (reported in the BBC), a full third of adult Britons complain of insomnia. Fully half of these insomniacs take prescription sleeping pills their doctors don’t know about. Thirty percent take them for at least […]
Making Up To The Monster (9/6/12)
What’s Happening to Energy Drinks? They’ve increased to become a larger part of American beverage business – presently $8.9 billion worth per year. Their corporate parents have also been subpoenaed by the New York Attorney General for not fully disclosing their ingredients or their health effects. What’s Prompted the Investigation? Deaths, widely reported in the […]
Dr. Medicine Explains Health Care For You (8/30/12)
Meet Dr. Medicine Today marks our first interview with general internist Dr. Medicine, America’s true health care representative – TV interviewer Lolly Partridge: Thanks so much for coming to Superior TV! We’re so, so happy to have the famous Dr. Medicine. Dr. Medicine: Thanks, Lolly. Traffic was murderous, and this show does keep me from […]
One Dollar = One Vote – The New Way to Rebuild American Greatness (8/27/12)
Embracing Our Destiny How can we return America to greatness? We know our country is in trouble. Our fiscal debt cliff is a rising Everest; poisonous political polarization prevents progress; sadly laughable infrastructure tumbles into rivers and seas; our health statistics rival Cuba. We know the magic of the market moves mountains. Now we should […]