Elective surgery ban for smokers and obese patients
The committee that plans and oversees medical care for the county of Hertfordshire, England...
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Author: SkepticalScalpel
Can a handheld ultrasound replace your doctor?
Dr. Mercola, described by Wikipedia as “an alternative medicine proponent, osteopathic physician,...
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A surgical resident’s legal battle with her program
A surgical resident is suing St. Louis University, its surgical residency program director,...
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Nearly 42% of users are satisfied with their EHR systems, survey finds
Okay, what was your first reaction when you read the above headline? Mine was a tweet: “How’s this...
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Why public reporting of individual surgeon outcomes should not be done
Last week Dr. Ashish K. Jha, a Harvard internist and health policy researcher, published an...
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Do good online ratings mean you’re a good doctor?
If you are a patient looking for help when trying to find the right doctor, you probably...
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Bladder catheter + oxygen supply tubing = death
According to the coroner of South Australia, a 72-year-old former member of the Australian...
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Money can’t buy drug adherence
In June I asked, “Who’s to blame?” for patients not taking their medications and cited a couple of...
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How has United Airlines done since the doctor was manhandled?
Three months ago I blogged about the doctor who was dragged off a United plane in Chicago...
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An unusual cause of shoulder pain
A woman in Montréal underwent a total hysterectomy for ovarian cancer back in March, and...
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“Brazilian butt lift” takes another life
Last year I blogged about a cosmetic surgeon in Florida named Osak Omulepu who had several bad...
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Nonadherence to medications: Who’s to blame?
No foundations or patient advocate groups are promoting awareness of nonadherence. There are no...
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Transgastric appendectomy: The answer to a question no one is asking
No one really wants to know if taking out an inflamed appendix using an endoscope passed...
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Will robots ever be able to perform surgery independently?
Will robots ever be able to perform surgery independently? And if they can, should they? In my...
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How much would you pay for a nap?
Los Cruces High School in New Mexico decided to address the growing problem of sleepy students by...
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Stronger Malpractice Laws Don’t Reduce Complications
A study of over 890,000 Medicare beneficiaries shows that states with malpractice environments...
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Who Has Grit? Cutting Resident Attrition Rates
What is grit? In an article in The Guardian, Angela Duckworth, a psychologist often called the...
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Should patients bail out when their doctor is burned out?
Google “physician burnout epidemic,” and you will find quite a few articles and blog...
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Wrong Body Cremated: ID’ing Patients By More Than a Name
The wrong body was cremated by the county coroner’s office in Los Angeles. Jorge Hernandez...
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A tube misconnection and a death: a medical whodunit
Here’s what we know. In September 2016, a 72-year-old former member of the Australian...
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