“NHS junior doctors have little time to eat or sleep.” Said the headline of an article from the Herald in Edinburgh, Scotland. It described a NHS (National Health Service) manual—no longer posted on the...
Read MoreReally? A paper published in April found that about 12 million Americans, or 5% of adults in this country, are being misdiagnosed every year. This news exploded all over Twitter. Anxious reports from media outlets such as NBC...
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Not too long ago, a fourth-year medical student asked me that question. Here’s what I told...
Read MoreA recent article on MedPage Today opened my eyes to a new and apparently growing subspecialty—interventional nephrology. In case you haven’t heard, nephrologists are apparently dissatisfied with the service they are...
Read MoreStraying out of one’s area of expertise can be dangerous, but Danger is my middle name [Not to be confused with Carlos Danger]. A paper, published online in the journal Circulation, says that every home foreclosure within...
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Are you familiar with a case in Minnesota where a doctor sued a patient’s son for defamation...
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The media often takes a research study’s findings completely out of context and confuses the...
Read MoreRisk-adjusted 30- to 90-day outcome data for selected types of operations done by specific surgeons and hospitals are now being publicly posted online by England’s National Health Service. According to the site, “Any...
Read MoreAn anesthetized patient fell to the floor headfirst from an operating room (OR) table during a laparoscopic appendectomy in Scotland. The table had been tilted into an extreme head-down position to facilitate the operation....
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It depends on what you read. A study of over 34,000 surgical procedures performed at a hospital...
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A superb study by the Michigan Bariatric Surgery Collaborative showed that the more skilled...
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I like studies that question accepted practices. I also like to question studies that question...
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Postoperative acute care visits for clinically significant surgical site infections (SSIs)...
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There seems to be no shortage of bad doctor stories going around these days. Just when you thought...
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Physician-Chef Points Out the Pros, Cons of Three Suggested Changes It’s nothing new to the...
Read MoreDo you believe that traditional hospitals will be obsolete in the future? A recent survey found that 57% of those polled believed that would happen. The survey, sponsored by the Intel Corporation, involved 12,000 subjects from...
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A paper from Johns Hopkins looked at traditional, every fourth night calls compared to...
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By now, you must be aware of the Canadian mammography study that appeared in the BMJ last week. It...
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Imagine you are sick and live in the upper Manhattan section of New York City. Your doctor tells...
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Some well-intentioned researchers from West Virginia University published a small study claiming...
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