by Dr. Philip J. O’Donnell | Mar 1, 2026 | Articles
A very common injury type is traumatic injury, which is the application of external physical force to the human body. Some tissues have the ability to repair themselves after such an injury, e.g. bones and muscles. Other tissues have relatively limited ability to...
by Dr. Philip J. O’Donnell | Feb 1, 2026 | Articles
Our OMRUM article this month will be uniquely focused and detailed on the infrastructure necessary to meet the needs of the patient population, i.e. how to build a better mousetrap, in this case outpatient medical facilities including physician offices and related...
by Dr. Philip J. O’Donnell | Jan 1, 2026 | Articles
The above magnificent line of iambic hexameter from Robert Burns’ poem “To a Mouse” captures a great deal of the difficulty of modern medicine. This article will detail one relatively straightforward medical misstep (thalidomide) and another somewhat more complicated...
by Dr. Philip J. O’Donnell | Dec 1, 2025 | Articles
On May 15, 2024, this author wrote an article, Medication Costs, identifying the huge problem of excess costs for medications. Not surprisingly, 1.5 years later, this is no better and likely worse. That article reviewed the cost of atorvastatin in many pharmacies...
by Dr. Philip J. O’Donnell | Nov 1, 2025 | Articles
1 of the greatest discoveries in civilization was that of fire. Based on current evidence, our cousins Homo erectus may have used fire even before Homo sapiens some 1,000,000 years ago. Those in our genus (Homo) found fire for food preparation a survival advantage,...
