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    Melissa Walton-Shirley, MD

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    Why legal pot makes this physician sick

    Author:
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    Publish date: October 19, 2023

    Cannabis-related emergency department visits from all acute-care hospitals in California increased by 1,808% from 2005 to 2019 in patients aged 65...

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    Opinion

    In defense of artificial sweeteners

    Author:
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    Publish date: June 26, 2023

    If more trials on artificial sweeteners are planned, they should be performed on people doing human things – which does not include ingesting 60...

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    Opinion

    Like texting and driving: The human cost of AI

    Author:
    Melissa Walton-Shirley, MD
    Publish date: October 11, 2022

    Enthusiastic presentations on the use of AI in medicine at a recent conference left this cardiologist concerned about the potential loss of human...

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    Organ transplantation: Unvaccinated need not apply

    Author:
    Melissa Walton-Shirley, MD
    Publish date: February 14, 2022

    Pandemic-era physicians must now consider whether a politically motivated choice to decline COVID-19 vaccination should negatively affect the...

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    USPSTF statement on aspirin: poor messaging at best

    Author:
    Melissa Walton-Shirley, MD
    Publish date: October 22, 2021

    Some older adults have mitigated their risk for myocardial infarction by taking aspirin, says doctor.

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    Fired for good judgment a sign of physicians’ lost respect

    Author:
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    Publish date: March 2, 2021

    The firing of a physician who made use of soon-to-expire COVID-19 vaccine doses rather than flush them epitomizes the loss of physician autonomy...

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