Recent content by drtomiumb

The team Radio Shack built on shifting sand Read a few business articles on Radio Shack and its business practice and tyrannical CEO and plummeting stock value and sell off rumors and disgruntled and burned out store managers and farcical email notification by the Shack's top management of one...

Remember when it was written never to 'corner' Lance, by Kristin, regarding his defensive and combative and hostile character? Remember how his teammates and friends always said how he came to france to 'kick the living ****e out of his competitors'? I think he either has a mood or character...

Herr Doktor Family and Emergency Medicine in Michigan since 1988. Still ride my Masi Gran Criterium and upgraded to a Dedacchi aluminum/carbon one three years ago. Grew up in the Merckx and Lemond era and raced to twelfth in 1976 junior nationals and gave it up for medical school. Such...

Your ego is writing checks your body can't cash--from Top Gun. Ouch. Pride goes before a fall. In this case, literally. I hope a talented clean American with some quality of character becomes the focus of our need for a reasonable homeboy hero. I feel ashamed of Armstrong's bitterness towards...

The king of nothing. Dead teammate with a massive head injury, fellow teammates with financial ruin and medical disasters from doping, divorce, partially abandoned kids, abandoned girlfriends with broken hearts, pimped out Trek bicycles, a win at all costs director, and now a nothing-to-lose...

physician monitored doping and performance Having been a national level road cyclist in the 1975 and 1976 season during the Lemond era and watching the devolution of the athletic spectacle and the exponential growth of medical knowledge and physiological tweaking, I find Pro cycling more and...

Since I am a doctor, I'll give it a go: red cells last an average of 120 days without intense exercise like marathons or TdF stages, probably 1/2 that with violent exertion. Statistics show that depletion occurs at a normal rate of loss of hematocrit from say 45 percent red cells to 35 percent...