The RBV Blog

A few days ago, I posted on tele-urology. I highlighted a urologist who was advertising her telemedicine services directly to patients, offering to treat a large variety of urological problems from the comfort of home. At the time, I wondered out loud what other specialties could go the “direct care” route. Here’s today’s answer to […]

May we live in interesting times. Check this out. What you will see is my friend Jane Sarasohn-Kahn’s blog post which further develops a theme I wrote about recently. In my post, I talked about the PSA offered by Pope Francis, in which he described getting the COVID vaccine as “An act of love.” Here, […]

Here’s an interesting one. A recent Harris Poll indicated that formal FDA approval of Comirnaty increased respondents’, both vaccinated and unvaccinated respondents, “confidence” in the vaccine. Interesting thought in and of itself. Reading this left me to ponder how many people could outline, even at the 20,000-foot level, the differences in the hurdles that a […]

Here’s an interesting one, the likes of which we have never seen before. When the Pfizer vaccine received final FDA approval, the company quickly rolled out a brand name for the product. Comirnaty. You can see the “creatives’” minds at work coming up with this one.  “Co” for COVID. “mirna” for the first authorized messenger […]

Our friend the Country Doctor certainly thinks so. Check this out! What you will see is his riff on the current collective state of mind of the United States. A sort of shared craziness that has the country more afraid of a vaccine than the disease it has been developed to prevent. Over 600,000 Americans dead […]

We have an interesting situation here on Hilton Head Island, SC. Reported statistics indicate that about 70% of Caucasians here are fully vaccinated.  And 40% is the number being bandied about for Blacks, while the estimated number for our LatinX citizenry is 20%.  A couple of points here. First, the explanation for the White vs. […]

Check this out. What you will see is a piece describing how a major piece of the “scientific data” offered to support the use of ivermectin, an anti-parasitic drug used in veterinary medicine, in the treatment of COVID-19 in humans is quite likely fraudulent. Not just inconclusive or errant. Purposefully fraudulent. As the story points […]

Check this out. What you will see is that Dr. Diana Londono, the urologist pictured above, offers a sort of fascinating array of services on her website. These include: Treatment of Acute Symptoms I offer same day, virtual, tele-video or telephone appointments for urgent urological conditions. Funny. I usually think of such one-off telemedicine encounters as being the […]

In my On Doctors’ MindsSM research that tracks the adaptations that office-based physicians have made to the COVID-19 pandemic, I have been fascinated to learn about how quickly clinicians were able to adapt to telemedicine, and some of the hurdles they encountered going up the learning curve involved in using this new technology. But check […]