by Dr. Manoj Jain | Sep 4, 2016 | USA Today TN
Last week, thousands of my physician colleagues and I received a letter from the U.S. Surgeon General, Dr. Vivek Murthy. He asked us to change our behavior in prescribing pain medicines. Around the same time, I was seeing a middle-aged man who had been admitted to the...
by Dr. Manoj Jain | Aug 22, 2016 | NPR
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by Dr. Manoj Jain | Aug 21, 2016 | USA Today TN
For this week’s column, I had been writing about the health care reform plans of the presidential nominees until the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) declared a “travel advisory” to the Miami Beach area due to Zika virus....
by Dr. Manoj Jain | Jul 31, 2016 | USA Today TN
Over the past two weeks, I, like millions of Americans, watched the Republican and Democratic national conventions. As politicians, celebrities and ordinary people made compelling arguments to vote for their candidate, I felt like a ping-pong ball bouncing from right...
by Dr. Manoj Jain | Jul 10, 2016 | USA Today TN
A recent Time magazine article suggesting that we should treat “gun violence as a disease” rather than just as a crime got me thinking. I vividly recall the debate several decades ago when alcoholism was suggested to be a disease and not just a behavior...
by Dr. Manoj Jain | Jun 26, 2016 | USA Today TN
I began one of the longest days of the year with a sun salutation — a mountain pose, the lunge, the downward dog, the plank pose, baby cobra, child’s pose, powerful pose (essentially a squat) and back -to-the-mountain pose. June 21, the day close to the summer...