Facts and ideas from anywhere

William Clifford Roberts, MD, editor in chief

Topics covered in this issue:
The Amish, body weight, and exercise
Obesity-related costs
Neurologist, author, master of Pembroke College of Oxford University, and breaker of the 4-minute mile record
Pro wrestling and "health"
Traffice deaths in the USA and worldwide
Nurse Charles Cullen
Rattus norvegicus
Bubonic plague in San Francisco
Calming aggressive male baboons
A paradox of our time
Physicians vs gun owners
US population projections
Donald M. Berwick, MD, MPP, an evidence-based health system reformer
Security of electronic medical records
Our blue blood leaders
We should have listened to Seth Glickenhaus
President Marvin J. Stone, MD, and the annual meeting of the American Osler Society