Clinical Questions at the Point of Care
Since the 1980s, studies have shown that clinicians frequently raise questions during patient...
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Month: August 2014
Health Data Interoperability in the United States
Health Data Interoperatbility in the United States
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The Unhealthy Habits Kids Take Into Adulthood
Meet Jim—the character in this Rewind the Future video—he is a man whose life flashes right before...
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First Comprehensive Guidelines for Pediatric Concussion
The first comprehensive pediatric concussion guidelines were launched by pediatric emergency...
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Getting Third Parties Out Of The Exam Room
Any physician, especially primary care physicians, can tell you that they are frequently forced to...
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Live Broadcast Surgery: Would You Be the Patient?
“Defibrillation, defibrillation, where is the defibrillator? We made a mistake while...
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Med School Debt & Resident Salary
Medscape’s Residents Salary & Debt Report 2014 was just released this week, surveying over...
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Diagnosing & Staging Esophageal Cancer
The overall 5-year survival rates for esophageal cancer are less than 15%. Although esophagectomy...
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Recognizing & Treating Caregiver Burden
Research has shown that unpaid family or informal caregivers provide as much as 90% of the in-home...
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Researchers Successfully Eliminate HIV Virus From Cultured Human Cells
The Temple University School of Medicine research team’s approach looks promising as they...
Read MoreEmory University, Ebola, and the Duty to Care
When news broke that two American medical missionaries stricken with the virulent Ebola virus were being transported to the United States, opinions around the world, in America, and on the streets of Atlanta, GA, were mixed…as...
Read MoreFollowing Guidelines Will Not Create Safe Harbor
At the end of May, Physician’s Weekly featured an article describing a bill that was introduced into the House of Representatives called HR 1406 The Saving Lives, Saving Costs Act. It would create a “safe...
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How Common is Medical Student Mistreatment?
Mistreatment of medical students has long been a problem nationwide and is not unique to any...
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