Physician and Medical Commentator

Eric Chevlen

3 articles 1999–2001

Eric Chevlen is a physician and medical commentator who contributed articles to The Weekly Standard between 1999 and 2001. His pieces addressed topics including drug enforcement policy, medical evidence, and ideological trends in the medical profession. He is known for his expertise in pain management and oncology.

A Bad Prescription from the DEA

June 4, 2001 · Magazine, Eric Chevlen

LAST YEAR, ABOUT 16,000 AMERICANS died from treating their arthritis with FDA-approved drugs such as Advil and Aleve -- so-called non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs. That's what happens if millions of people, to treat their chronic pain, take a kind of drug that can increase the risk of bleeding…

A Flood of Evidence

September 27, 1999 · Magazine, Eric Chevlen, Books and Arts

If you were going to look for hidden evidence of a flood, where would you start? The answer -- at least for the greatest of floods, that time in Noah's day when "all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the windows of the heavens were opened" -- turns out to be under water.