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John Russell, MD
John Russell, MD
  • Chair, Department of Family Medicine
  • Director, Family Medicine Residency
  • Abington Memorial Hospital
  • Abington, PA
Best Practices for Identifying, Diagnosing and Treating Transthyretin Amyloidosis (ATTR-PN and ATTR-CM)
Comprehensive Immunization: Co-Administering Flu, RSV, and COVID-19 Vaccines
Boosting Flu Vaccination Rates: A Guide for Primary Care Providers
Shifting Our Approach to Gun Violence: A Public Health Crisis
Spare Parts: The Story of Medicine Through the History of Transplant Surgery
Strategies for Stopping the Spread of Monkeypox
Monkeypox: What Clinicians Need to Know
The Whole Body Reset
Lifelines: A Physician's Fight for Public Health
Post-COVID Care: How One Clinic Is Treating Long Haulers
Strategies for Combating COVID-19 Conspiracies & Myths
The AMA’s Approach to Ending the Overdose Epidemic
Fevers, Feuds, & Diamonds: Exploring the Ebola Epidemic
Facing Fears About the COVID-19 Vaccines: How to Counsel Patients
Long Walk Out of the Woods: A Physician's Story of Addiction, Depression, & Recovery
Nine Pints: A Journey Through the Money, Medicine, & Mysteries of Blood
Exploring the Ethics of Vaccines
COVID-19 Essays from the Front: The First Six Months
Staying Safe for the Winter
Updates on the COVID-19 Vaccine
A Look at Immunizations Through Time
The History of Quarantine
Coronavirus: What's in a Name?
Off-Label Medicines in Fighting COVID-19 & Through the Years
Managing Mental Health in the Times of Pandemic
A Tale of Two Cities: Social Distancing in the 1918 Influenza Pandemic
HIPEC: A Novel Treatment for Advanced Abdominal Cancers
Slow Medicine: The Way to Healing
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women
The Bad Food Bible: How & Why to Eat Sinfully
Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic
Higher Risk, Lowered Age: New Colorectal Cancer Screening Guidelines
Could a Daily Dose of Baking Soda Combat Autoimmune Disease?
Is Telemedicine the New House Call?
Heart of the Matter: Emerging Treatment Options for Congenital Heart Disease
In Shock: One Doctor's Journey from Death to Recovery and the Redemptive Power of Hope
The Vaccine Race: Science, Politics, & the Human Costs of Defeating Disease
An Epidemic of Empathy in Healthcare: How to Deliver Compassionate, Connected Patient Care
Dirt Is Good: The Advantage of Germs for Children's Developing Immune System
Pancreatic Cancer: The Hunt to Catch a Silent Killer
Physician, Heal Thyself: How to Prevent Burnout
Less Medicine, More Health: 7 Assumptions That Drive Too Much Medical Care
Deadliest Enemy: Our War Against Killer Germs
Sometimes Brilliant: The Impossible Adventure of a Spiritual Seeker & Visionary Physician Who Helped Conquer the Worst Disease in History
Inferno: A Doctor's Ebola Story
On the Front Lines of Medical Missions: Two Doctors' Perspectives
Drug Dealer, MD: How Doctors Were Duped, Patients Got Hooked, and Why It’s So Hard to Stop
Towards a Cure for Castleman Disease: One Doctor's Personal Journey
We CAN Fix Healthcare: The Future is NOW
The Big Five: Five Simple Things You Can Do to Live a Longer, Healthier Life
Recognizing Alzheimer's Disease at the Earliest Stages: Key Signs and Symptoms
1 Out of 10 Doctors Recommends: Weird Cures from the Annals of Medicine
The Malaria Project: The U.S. Government's Secret Mission to Find a Miracle Cure
10% Happier: How a Journalist Found Self-Help That Actually Works
Escape the Status Trap: Improve Your Finances
Applying the Evidence-Based Paradigm to Investing
The Fever: How Malaria Has Ruled Humankind for 500,000 Years
Pandemic: Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Ebola & Beyond
The Real Doctor Will See You Shortly: A Physician's First Year
The Man Who Touched His Own Heart: True Tales of Science, Surgery, and Mystery
Dr. Mütter's Marvels: A True Tale of Intrigue and Innovation at the Dawn of Modern Medicine
Stoned: A Doctor's Case for Medical Marijuana
Shocked: Adventures in Bringing Back the Recently Dead
Stealth Medicine in the White House: the Secret Heart Disease of President Franklin D. Roosevelt
Changing Outcomes: A Financial Recovery Strategy for Peak-Career Physicians
The Role of the Certified Diabetes Educator: A Team Effort
Toward a Healthier Journey for the Type 2 Diabetes Patient
Fostering a "Back to Basics" Model in Type 2 Diabetes Care
Young Doctors and The Perils of Instant Financial Gratification: Guiding Physicians Entering Practice
Pedestrianism: When Watching People Walk Was America's Favorite Spectator Sport
Caring for the Heart: Mayo Clinic and the Rise of Specialization
The Teenage Brain: A Neuroscientist's Survival Guide to Raising Adolescents and Young Adults
Cured: How the Berlin Patients Defeated HIV and Forever Changed Medical Science
The Chimp and the River: How AIDS Emerged from an African Forest
Genius on the Edge: The Bizarre Double Life of Dr. William Stewart Halsted
The Shortlist: Dr. Russell's "Must Read" Recommendations
Exercise Will Hurt You: Concussion, Traumatic Brain Injury, and How the Dangers of Sports and Exercise Can Affect Your Health
Managing Obesity in Primary Care: Updates from the Latest NIH Guidelines
ReachMD Panel on the CDC's Top 10 Public Health Threats: A Year in Review
The Poisoner’s Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York
Brain On Fire: My Month of Madness
Meet John Russell, MD
Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital, Part 2
Strange Medicine: A Shocking History of Real Medical Practices Through the Ages
The Witch in the Waiting Room: A Physician Investigates Paranormal Phenomena in Medicine
<i>The Remedy: Robert Koch, Arthur Conan Doyle, and the Quest to Cure Tuberculosis</i>
Asleep: The Forgotten Epidemic that Remains One of Medicine’s Greatest Mysteries
The American Plague: The Untold Story of Yellow Fever, the Epidemic that Shaped Our History
Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital, Part 1
League of Denial: The NFL, Concussions and the Battle for Truth
Scurvy: How a Surgeon, a Mariner, and a Gentlemen Solved the Greatest Medical Mystery of the Age of Sail
Pox Americana: The Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1775-82
Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
Drop Dead Healthy: One Man's Humble Quest for Bodily Perfection
Pox: An American History
Born To Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
The Wild Life of Our Bodies: Predators, Parasites, and Partners That Shape Who We Are Today
The Panic Virus: The True Story Behind the Vaccine-Autism Controversy
Flu: The Story Of The Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus that Caused It
Health Insurance Exchanges in the Corporate Benefits World
The Power of Habit
God's Hotel: a Doctor, a Hospital, and a Pilgrimage to the Heart of Medicine
Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus
The Road Back: A Journey of Grace and Grit
The President Is a Sick Man: Wherein the Supposedly Virtuous Grover Cleveland Survives a Secret Surgery at Sea and Vilifies the Courageous Newspaperman Who Dared Expose the Truth
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