A patient of mine moved out of state after her last pregnancy. She’s pregnant again and doing fine at about 12 weeks. Yes, I’m sad […]
Prophylactic Salpingectomy?
Should we perform prophylactic salpingectomy whenever possible to reduce the risk of ovarian cancer? Over the last five years, many gynecologists have made it routine […]
Five Neat Tricks to Live Longer and Healthier Lives
Physicians and patients – well, people – constantly struggle with understanding how important certain things are or how impactful they might be in our lives. […]
The Hippocratic Oath
NB: This is not normal howardisms fare, but I needed to put it somewhere for reference by others. Don’t feel obligated to read it unless […]
Fake News (aka, Ob/Gyn Clickbait)
I think a lot about how and where doctors get the information that informs how they practice medicine. In medical school, doctors learn information in […]
The Facts Speak For Themselves
I recently went to an ACOG-endorsed educational activity in Washington DC. The speaker, from a nearby local university, fancied himself an expert on the subject matter. […]
Ethical Considerations of Childhood Vaccination
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Is Howard Lazy?
It’s the third week of February, and prior to today, there were only three new posts on howardisms (there are two new posts today, of […]
Four Types of Physicians
Some people are just overwhelmed by the idea of evidence-based medicine. They notice two themes when reading about EBM: 1) a lot of what we […]
Bed Rest
It’s amazing to me that this is something still worth writing about, but unfortunately obstetricians and high-risk OB specialists around the country continue to use […]