Author: Fred Gardner

Sheriff Carmody Busts the NBME

There’s a new sheriff in town—Bryan Carmody, MD,  a pediatric nephrologist who teaches at Eastern Virginia Medical School and calls his website thesheriffofsodium.com, In a series of brilliant blog posts and tweets,...

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JAMA Editor Takes the Hit

June 5, 2021 by Fred Gardner     Dr. Howard Bauchner the longtime editor-in-chief of the Journal of the American Medical Association, has agreed to resign after a JAMA podcast and the tweet publicizing it denied the reality of...

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Claud Cockburn’s ‘Double Personality’

In his autobiography, I, Claud…, Cockburn describes being recruited to write for the Daily Worker in late 1936:“It was about this time that Mr. Pollitt, Secretary of the Communist Party of Great Britain, whom I had never met,...

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