Unmatched Graduate: “Med Schools to Blame”
The following was submitted as a series of comments on my Physician’s Weekly post about Missouri’s...
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Author: SkepticalScalpel
Parking lot needlestick yields $4.6 million payout
A jury awarded a woman $4,618,500 for a needlestick injury she sustained in the parking lot of...
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Is burnout inevitable during medical training?
An emergency medicine resident blogging on KevinMD, thinks so. Here’s why. He started with the...
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Why can’t more doctors apologize for mistakes?
“The unintended consequences of these seemingly well-intentioned laws are doctors who can’t...
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Misinterpretation of Medical Error Deaths from BMJ Paper Continues
About 6 weeks ago, I wrote a post called “Overestimating the effect of medical errors can be...
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Gas Mix-Up Causes Newborn Death
In mid-July, a baby born by cesarean section died about one hour later due to the administration...
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Shocker: Hospitalists’ “Unprofessional” Behavior Is Normal
By their own admission, medical hospitalists are guilty of many types of unprofessional behavior,...
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Can you trust online physician ratings?
Many people believe you can. But here’s what a recent article in the Harvard Business Review (HBR)...
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Should Doctors and Nurses Wear Scrubs in Public?
Being “old school,” I don’t like to see people wearing scrubs outside of the hospital. But there...
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Overestimating the effect of medical errors can be detrimental
An issue with inflated numbers like 251,000 and 440,000 is that they are repeated by naïve...
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Decisions made in Orlando: Is there any law more misunderstood than HIPAA?
On the morning of the tragic mass shooting in Orlando, a tweet by CNN stated, “The White House...
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Mystery solved: Keep your white coats. And your sleeves.
My research staff recently came across a paper that directly addressed this problem. As they say...
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Patient Dies 90 Min After Live Broadcast Surgery
“In addition to his tumor, the patient had hepatitis and cirrhosis. Was he a good candidate?...
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The Opioid Epidemic: What Was the Joint Commission’s Role?
Last month the Joint Commission issued a statement written by its Executive VP for Healthcare...
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Caribbean invasion: Medical school turf wars
Last week, the Wall Street Journal reported on an interesting situation occurring in New York...
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Lipo Blunders, Yet a 4-Star Doc Rating
Here’s another reason to take online physician ratings with several grains of salt Below is...
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A New View Debates Antibiotics for Appendicitis
Here’s what Jane E. Brody, New York Times Personal Health columnist, had to say about surgeons who...
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EMR notes: Copy and paste, done in haste, what a waste
An epidemic is sweeping the country, and no one is doing anything about it. No it’s not Zika...
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Florida teen impersonates a doctor…again
February’s Internet sensation, at least where I hang out, was Malachi Love-Robinson, the...
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Doctor Operates on the Wrong Child
A newborn in Tennessee had an operation to correct a “tongue tie.” Except for the...
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