Wonderful watching people walking and respectfully enjoying beaches in Northeast Florida. Such outdoor exercise helps prevent heart disease, osteoporosis and depression - killers that have taken many more lives than COVID-19 over the past month. We can fight a two front war!

Ever greater # of physicians are concerned about the continued shut down of non-COVID-19 medical activity. On a call with docs from Texas, Arizona, and Florida yesterday and we all had the same observation – more than ½ empty hospitals in our communities for the past month.

nejm.org/doi/full/10.10… This article is 1 of many raising issue of negative consequences from continued shutdown of US medical system outside of COVID-19. Hard to understand why docs shouldn't get back to business – for patients and greater good as health care=18% of economy.

nytimes.com/2020/11/18/wor… Unfortunate and confusing example of stating that COVID-19 transmission is primarily airborne. Criticizes Hong Kong for sanitizing measures - the safest crowded big city in the world by far (COVID per cap rate of 748 versus 37591 for US)!

Exciting news from American College of Cardiology. Bempedoic acid study results just announced to the world. #ACC23 #WCCardio #MedEvidence #WSOS #ENCOREdocs

Imagine life with an LDL-cholesterol <25 - it's possible with a new class of non-statin treatments. Find out more at encoredocs.com

Just saw patient who stopped Pradaxa due to lawyer "bad drug" ad & then stroked the next wk. Please don't stop any Rx b4 talking 2 ur doc!

FBook cofounder Severin ditched US 4 Singapore. Looks like Uncle Sam and California won't get their piece of his IPO $. Tax hikers beware.

Mark Twain said, "It's easy to stop smoking, I've done it a thousand times." Can't stop? Research may help, Check out: encoredocs.com.

Just met Mitt Romney and presented him info on the dysfunctional Sunshine Laws. We talled about statins-he takes a low dose. Good guy!

We are in high season for political fund raising. Will there be any money left for the Facebook IPO?

Obama raisd $43 mill vs Romney's $40 mill last mnth.Since Obama gets big CA$ spent in swing states, thank Hwood for helping FL's economy.

Azithromycin (Zpak) reportedly caused addl 40 deaths per million scripts based on NEJM paper. Are drug interactions at play?

Scientific integrity requires researchers to go out of their way to show possible flaws in their hypotheses-so ask researchers bout limits.

Enjoyed working w/ Andy Dean on health care segment for his fast paced show. Check out the podcast from last night Hr 3 americanowradio.com

Bystolic rep visited today and will follow me if I mentioned her product. Hmmm. An ethical dilemma for the modern e-man.

Im in Panama preparing a GCP lecture for training course 2moro. Panama docs impressed me - knowledgeable and hungry for research ops.

PAMRI-Panama is research site that I've helped develop. We start screening for Pfizer arthritis study 2moro: pamri-panama.com

Having dinner with interesting couple who are evaluating cannabinoids as performance agent for tennis. Go figure!

Having dinner @ Capital Grill for my daughter's bday. Delicious Sirloin cardiology style. No butter or rub. Medium rare. :)