Education & Advocacy
When a war is waged there are always casualties. The national “war on drugs” is the most recent tragic example and there appears no end in sight. As a classically trained American medical school graduate (Ohio State University class of 1981) with over 35 years in medical practice, I can only shake my head and […]
Congratulations Florida! We are the first state in the south to have a legitimate medical cannabis program. Please note the above usage of the proper scientific term cannabis rather than the racially charged, prohibitionist derived marijuana. The legislation that Governor Rick Scott signed into law last Friday has officially renamed the Office of Compassionate Use and […]
When Patrick DeLuca and I conceptualized the idea of beginning a first-of-its-kind cannabis practice in Florida back in November 2016, we knew it wouldn’t be an easy task. The legal hoops we had to jump through our first few months were both maddeningly complex and ridiculously expensive. No matter how unnecessarily difficult our area of […]
I know an emergency when I see one. It’s what I’ve studied and practiced my entire professional life, being the emeritus 35-year Emergency Medicine specialist that I am. I have always spoken to the “specialty of time” concept. In emergency medicine the average shift contains innumerable amounts of problems I was tasked to solve. Recently, […]
