Denis’s Substack: The Skeptical Physician
Denis BenjaminThe Skeptical Physician: Provocative, challenging, and sometimes humorous commentaries on health, nutrition, wellness and the medical-care system.
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A Pathologist’s Guide to Foodborne Illness
In times past, we joked that the main danger of traveling abroad was food-related illness. This covered a wide swath of potential causes and pathogens, and drinking the local water was deemed an act of heroism or stupidity. In many countrie...
On Being a Curmudgeon
Being a curmudgeon is a lot like being Kermit the Frog: it’s not easy being green, and it’s not easy being disagreeable on principle. You stand apart from your tribe, viewed with the same warmth reserved for a health inspector at a food tru...
Autopsy of the Beautiful Game
This topic is not my usual fodder, but as a card-carrying curmudgeon I retain full diagnostic rights to opine on any subject. This one is about football, aka soccer, aka the sport that occupies the peculiar American shelf between “actual re...
The Magic of Numbers
The Chinese have known and exploited numbers for millennia - the Five flavors, the Gang of Four, Eight treasure rice, and the like.
Perhaps I have not been observant enough about our own culture. I knew about the seven Deadly Sins and the...
Supplements — Redux
I’ve written about supplements before. More than once. And yet here I am again, because the situation keeps getting worse and the public keeps getting played.
The core problem with supplements isn’t whether they work, though that’s a legit...
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Denis R Benjamin is a retired pediatric pathologist and a research associate at the Botanical Research Institute of Texas in Fort Worth. Interests include medicine, mycology, watercolor painting, and writing.
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