Tamoxifen gets a really bad rep. If you ever try to google tamoxifen, you’ll get a list of side effects ranging from the more common symptoms of hot flashes, night sweats and decreased libido to the less common issues of “tamoxifen toe,” vaginal discharge, and fluid retention. Even as an…

When I was a third-year student at Tufts University School of Medicine, I had a psychiatry attending who was adamant that we not write the phrase “the patient complains of” in the chart. This was in contrast to everything I had been taught. The traditional method of obtaining a medical…

One of the questions I get asked most often is “Did my fertility treatments cause my breast cancer?” The short answer: NO. However, some historical data is conflicting and so this topic has always remained incredibly controversial. We now have the results of a large meta-analysis (a meta-analysis is a…