Major Writings

The word "major" is used here in a relative sense, meaning only "not minor." Even so, many minor publications are included.

Books

1. Sotos JG. The Mary Lincoln Mind-Body Sourcebook. Mt. Vernon, VA: Mt. Vernon Book Systems, 2017. Website
2. Sotos JG. The Physical Lincoln. Mt. Vernon, VA: Mt. Vernon Book Systems, 2008. Website
3. Sotos JG. The Physical Lincoln Sourcebook. Mt. Vernon, VA: Mt. Vernon Book Systems, 2008. Website
4. Sotos JG. Zebra Cards: An Aid to Obscure Diagnosis. Philadelphia: American College of Physicians, 1989. Revised edition 1991. Reprinted 2006. Website

 

Presidents and First Families

1. The Mary Lincoln Mind-Body Sourcebook, as above.
2. The Physical Lincoln, as above.
3. The Physical Lincoln Sourcebook, as above.
4. Sotos JG. How the health of presidential candidates should be evaluated. Wall Street Journal Expert Panel on Healthcare. 2016 Sept. 25 Online
5. Sotos JG. "What an affliction" -- Mary Todd Lincoln's fatal pernicious anemia. Perspectives in Biology and Medicine. 2015; 58: 419-444. (Published in July 2016.) Paywall
6. Sotos JG. Corpulence and correspondence: President William H. Taft and the medical management of obesity [Letter]. Annals of Internal Medicine. 2014 Apr 15; 160(8): 580. Paywall
7. Sotos JG. Abraham Lincoln's marfanoid mother: the earliest known case of multiple endocrine neoplasia type 2B? Clinical Dysmorphology. 2012 Jul;21(3):131-6. Paywall
8. Sotos JG. Herndon's Lincoln [Book review]. Lincoln Herald. 2012 Summer; 114(2): 144-146.
9. Englert R, Sotos J. The battle of Gettysburg: how today's technology connected Jennie Wade to Abraham Lincoln after 145 years [Abstract]. Proceedings of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences. 2012 (Feb.); 17: 8.
10. Sotos JG. Abraham Lincoln did not have type 5 spinocerebellar ataxia. Neurology. 2009 Oct 20;73(16):1328-32. Online -- Correspondence: Neurology. 2010 Jun 1;74(22):1837-8.
11. Sotos JG. Lincoln logged incorrectly [Letter]. JAMA. 2009; 302: 489. Online
12. Sotos JG. President Taft's blood pressure [Letter]. Mayo Clinic Proceedings. 2006 Nov;81(11):1507-8. Online
13. Sotos JG. Taft and Pickwick: sleep apnea in the White House. Chest. 2003 Sep;124(3):1133-42. Online -- Correspondence: Chest. 2004 Apr;125(4):1588.
14. Sotos J. Presidential disability and the twenty-fifth amendment [Letter]. JAMA. 1995 Sep 13;274(10):799.

 

Biosecurity / Biodefense

1. Sotos JG. Biotechnology and the lifetime of technical civilizations [pre-print]. arXiv:1709.01149, Sept. 2017. Free Blog Journal ArXiv
2. Sotos J. Genetic diseases to guide digital hacks of the human genome: how the cancer moonshot program will enable almost anyone to crash the operating system that runs you or to end civilization... within 15 years [Presentation]. DEFCON-25 conference. July 2017. Video

 

Clinical Medicine

1. Sotos JG, Tower SS. Systemic disease after hip replacement: aeromedical implications of arthroprosthetic cobaltism. Aviation, Space and Environmental Medicine. 2013 Mar;84(3):242-245. Online
2. Simmons MS, et al. Dentistry-based approaches to sleep-disordered breathing, algorithms, and multidisciplinary perspectives. Journal of the California Dental Association. 2012 Feb;40(2):168-81. [Author 13 out of 16!]
3. Gupta E, Bansal D, Sotos J, Olden K. Risk of adverse clinical outcomes with concomitant use of clopidogrel and proton pump inhibitors following percutaneous coronary intervention. Digestive Disease Sciences. 2010 Jul;55(7):1964-8. doi: 10.1007/s10620-009-0960-8.
4. Sotos JG. Simplified calculations using likelihood ratios. Evidence Based Medicine. 2006 Oct;11(5):132. -- Reprinted in: ACP Journal Club. 2007; 146(2): A10. Website
5. Sotos JG. Words matter: a proposed nosologic lexicon for sleep breathing. Sleep. 2006 Sep;29(9):1111-3.
6. Sotos JG. Mathematical properties of the sleep pressure score [Letter]. Sleep. 2005 Jun;28(6):765.
7. Sotos JG. Beeturia and iron absorption. [Letter] Lancet. 1999; 254: 1032. Online Website
8. Hutter AM, Knoebel SB, Mark DB, Messer JV, Rodrique RB, Selker HP, Sotos JG. Cardiology. Chapter 2 in: Ladenson P (ed.). The Consultation Guide. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 1999. Pages 31-102.
9. Sotos JG. Congenital deutan defects of color perception in mission specialists. Report submitted to National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), December 1998. Online
10. Sotos JG, Levin HR, Baughman KL. Dilated cardiomyopathy. Current Opinion in Cardiology. 1992; 7: 429-438.
11. Sotos JG. MYCIN and NEOMYCIN: two approaches to generating explanations in rule-based expert systems. Aviation, Space and Environmental Medicine. 1990 Oct;61(10):950-4.
12. Zebra Cards, as above.

 

Medical Humanism

1. Sotos J. Medicine's big tent. Huffington Post. 2014 April 25. Online
2. Sotos J. "House" advisor: why we didn't dumb down the medicine. CNN.com. 2012 May 21. Online
3. Hancock E, Sotos J. Dear Dr. Zebra. Johns Hopkins Magazine. 1996; 48(2): 25-29. Online
4. Sotos JG. School days. JAMA. 1982; 248: 233.

 

Policy

1. Sotos JG. How the FDA Should Regulate Medical AI Systems. Wall Street Journal Expert Panel on Healthcare. 2017 Sept. 15 Online
2. Sotos J, Rosenberg S, Sogaard M. US can't afford to be left behind in precision medicine "gold rush" [Editorial]. The Hill. 2017 May 5. Online
3. Sotos JG. A simple change that could transform health care. Wall Street Journal Expert Panel on Healthcare. 2016 Sept. 25 Online
4. Sotos JG. How the health of presidential candidates should be evaluated. Wall Street Journal Expert Panel on Healthcare. 2016 Sept. 25 Online
5. Sotos JG. It’s time to radically change how the FDA approves drugs. Wall Street Journal Expert Panel on Healthcare. 2016 June 29 Online
6. Sotos JG. What medicine could learn from the aviation industry. Wall Street Journal Expert Panel on Healthcare. 2015 Sept. 29 Online
7. Sotos JG. How electronic medical records distract nurses -- and harm patients. Wall Street Journal Expert Panel on Healthcare. 2015 Sept. 28 Online
8. Sotos JG. How future hackers will target your DNA. Wall Street Journal Expert Panel on Healthcare. 2015 Apr. 28 Online
9. Sotos JG. How big data can make your doctor smarter. Wall Street Journal Expert Panel on Healthcare. 2015 Mar. 24 Online
10. Sotos JG. Your genes don't guarantee sickness or health. Wall Street Journal Expert Panel on Healthcare. 2014 Sept. 18 Online
11. Sotos JG. Why all health fads should be ignored. Wall Street Journal Expert Panel on Healthcare. 2014 Sept. 17 Online
12. Sotos JG. Imagine if doctors had NSA-quality data. Wall Street Journal Expert Panel on Healthcare. 2014 Sept. 16 Online
13. Sotos JG. Why Millennials should be scared for their health. Wall Street Journal Expert Panel on Healthcare. 2014 Sept. 15 Online
14. Sotos JG. The limits of current health-care data. Wall Street Journal Expert Panel on Healthcare. 2014 June 11. Online
15. Sotos JG. The annoying advice doctors give, but don't follow. Wall Street Journal Expert Panel on Healthcare. 2014 June 10. Online
16. Sotos JG. Why doctors usually can't base decisions on science. Wall Street Journal Expert Panel on Healthcare. 2014 June 9. Online
17. Sotos JG. Gens Y, X and Millennials: learn from the Boomers' health mistakes. Wall Street Journal Expert Panel on Healthcare. 2014 June 9. Online
18. Sotos JG. For better or worse, vitamins are medicine, too. Wall Street Journal Expert Panel on Healthcare. 2013 Nov. 21. Online
19. Sotos JG. Today’s "alternative" treatments may be tomorrow's mainstream. Wall Street Journal Expert Panel on Healthcare. 2013 Nov. 20. Online
20. Sotos JG. Incentivize healthy behavior instead of cutting health care. Wall Street Journal Expert Panel on Healthcare. 2013 Nov. 19. Online
21. Sotos JG. Let's make the Affordable Care Act work, not gripe about why it doesn't. Wall Street Journal Expert Panel on Healthcare. 2013 Nov. 18. Online
22. Sotos JG. [Should doctors communicate with their patients via email?] Next up, texting. Wall Street Journal Expert Panel on Healthcare. 2013 June 20. Online
23. Sotos JG. Let doctors be doctors. Wall Street Journal Expert Panel on Healthcare. 2013 June 19. Online
24. Sotos JG. [Changing the way physicians are paid] Keep your eye on improving outcomes. Wall Street Journal Expert Panel on Healthcare. 2013 June 18. Online
25. Sotos JG. Don’t pass the salt, please. Wall Street Journal Expert Panel on Healthcare. 2013 June 17. Online
26. Sotos JG. True physicians will praise the ACA [Affordable Care Act]. Wall Street Journal Expert Panel on Healthcare. 2013 Apr. 12. Online
27. Sotos JG. Government should tap into our natural biology. Wall Street Journal Expert Panel on Healthcare. 2013 Apr. 10. Online
28. Sotos JG. [How to improve communication?] It's simple: slow down. Wall Street Journal Expert Panel on Healthcare. 2013 Apr. 9. Online
29. Sotos JG. Combat tobacco use and be mindful of mental health. Wall Street Journal Expert Panel on Healthcare. 2013 Feb. 22. Online
30. Sotos JG. There are worse things than a tired resident. Wall Street Journal Expert Panel on Healthcare. 2013 Feb. 21. Online
31. Sotos JG. [Too much prevention?] In absolute terms, it's impossible to argue either way. Wall Street Journal Expert Panel on Healthcare. 2013 Feb. 19. Online
32. Sotos JG. A modest -- and slimming! -- proposal. Washington Post. 2006 April 7; A19. Online

 

Selected letters

1. Sotos JG, Huyen Y, Borrelli A. Data-sharing models. New England Journal of Medicine. 2017; 376: 2305. Online
2. Sotos JG. Case 27-2009: a woman with fever, rash, and lymphadenopathy. New England Journal of Medicine. 2009; 361: 2294-2295. Online
3. Sotos JG. Cullen's and Turner's sign. New England Journal of Medicine. 2006; 354: 979. Online
4. Sotos JG. Scholarship erosion. Annals of Internal Medicine. 2006; 145: 77.
5. Sotos JG. Ethanol in hospital formularies. JAMA. 2003; 289: 2361.
6. Sotos JG. Botulinum toxin in biowarfare. JAMA. 2001; 285: 2716.
7. Sotos JG, Rienhoff HY Jr. Will genetics revolutionize medicine? New England Journal of Medicine. 2000; 343: 1496. Online
8. Sotos JG, Olden KW. Cervical-disk herniation. New England Journal of Medicine. 1998; 339: 852.
9. Sotos JG, Sotos GA. Clinical problem solving: diverted by the chief complaint. New England Journal of Medicine. 1995; 333: 1425. Online
10. Sotos JG. SI units and ketchup on a kilogrammer. Annals of Internal Medicine. 1988; 108: 776.
11. Sotos JG. The Management of AIDS Patients. New England Journal of Medicine. 1987; 316:632.
12. Sotos JG. Diagnosis of fractures of the hip and pelvis. New England Journal of Medicine. 1983; 308: 971.
13. Sotos JG. A question about Schwann cells. New England Journal of Medicine. 1981; 304: 673.

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• Biosecurity
• Clinical Medicine
• Medical Humanism
• Policy
• Selected Letters

Dustbin

Computer Tips

• How to Install X-Windows for Debian 3.1 Linux on a Sony Desktop Computer [2005]
• How to Install Windows98 into VMWare [2004]
• How to Connect a non-USB Kyocera Smartphone to a USB Macintosh [2001]

 

Good Ideas that Never Caught On

• How the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) might regulate medical software [1995]

 

Defunct Projects

• Historical books for Osler Marines -- the Internet Archive does it better.
• Genetics and Disease (28 articles) -- gone, even the last: long QT syndrome.
• WebMD Health Risk Appraisal -- gone after 6 years of bug-free operation.

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Education

• A.B. Dartmouth College, Chemistry
• A.B. Dartmouth College, Mathematics
• M.D. Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
• M.S. Computer Science: Artificial Intelligence, Stanford University
• Air War College, US Air Force

 

Training

• Internship & Residency in Medicine, Osler Medical Service, Johns Hopkins
• Fellowship in Cardiology, Johns Hopkins
• Fellowship in Heart Failure and Cardiac Transplantation, Johns Hopkins
• Flight Surgeon Wings, USAF School of Aerospace Medicine

 

Past Positions

• Chief Medical Officer, Intel Health & Life Sciences
• Chief Medical Engineer, Healtheon/WebMD
• Principal Scientist, DNA Sciences
• Adjunct Professor of Medicine, University of North Carolina School of Medicine
• Instructor in Medicine, Johns Hopkins
• Medical Technical Consultant, House, MD television series
• Medical Consultant, The Good Doctor television series
• Science Consultant, Torchwood: Miracle Day television series

 

Current Positions

• Expertscape CEO
• Expert Panelist on Healthcare, Wall Street Journal
• Colonel, Air National Guard
• Medical & Scientific Advisory Board, American Sleep Apnea Association

 

Residual Bitterness

• NASA Astronaut selections [page 115]

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