This weekend was the opening weekend for Martin Scorsese’s latest flick Shutter Island – a psycho thriller about a patient gone missing at a psychiatric hospital containing patients that are deemed criminally insane.   I won’t give away the plot, but it’s definitely a must see.  The profiles of the patients there are certainly over-dramatized; however, [...]

Februrary 8, 2010 was the day Dr. Conrad Murray, a Houston cardiologist, was formally charged with one count of involuntary manslaughter in the case of the death of Michael Jackson.  The Huffington Post has the whole story, which I’ll summarize and editorialize below. Basically, Murray was charged with manslaughter by the Los Angeles court system, [...]

It appears that reality TV star Heidi Montag went under the knife to make a few improvements on her already flawless face.  She apparently had 10 plastic surgery procedures at one time!  That’s quite efficient.  She may have saved herself some recovery time and maybe some money by having to pay for only one anesthetic; [...]

It’s a somber brew today.  Without the caffeinated enthusiasm of it’s usual posts, Medical Barista reports today on the death of actor Patrick Swayze.  Swayze died last night after battling pancreatic cancer since January of 2008.  Swayze was diagnosed already having metastatic disease, meaning the cancer had already spread to other parts of the body [...]