Craig Bowron MD, FACP is a physician and writer in St.Paul, Minnesota.

Trained in internal medicine, he provides primary care to patients at a large, high-acuity hospital in Minneapolis.

Links to his most recent writing can be found at http://craigbowronmd.blogspot.com/.

Blog Entries by Craig Bowron

Mammography Debate: Even Physicians Can Get Emotional About Science

Posted December 4, 2009 | 12:31 PM (EST)


The squabbling generated by recently revised mammography screening guidelines showed that in the great American health care reform debate, physicians like myself are not always above the fray. In fact, we can sometimes be the fray.

Consider the American College of Radiology's official counterpoint, which began with the...

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America's Health Care Addiction

26 Comments | Posted September 29, 2009 | 02:10 PM (EST)


Substantive health care reform will only come with a cultural shift that recenters public expectations and puts the science of health care, and health care outcomes, back in charge

Science is what we use to keep from fooling ourselves.
-- Richard Feynman

On occasion a patient arrives in the...

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