Intensive Lifestyle Interventions: Assessing the Impact

Jan 30, 2015

The number of adults who are overweight or obese and have type 2 diabetes is increasing rapidly...

The Sensitive Subject of HIV Treatment Side Effects

Jan 30, 2015

Antiretroviral therapy (ART) is essential to keeping HIV from replicating and further infecting...

Examining Why HIV Patients Discontinue ART

Jan 30, 2015

Discontinuation of antiretroviral therapy (ART) among patients with HIV has been found to lead to...

Judgments

Jan 28, 2015

About five in the afternoon on a weekday trauma shift we got a call from Native Air, a helicopter...

Physicians Underutilize Effective Screening Methods to Detect Alcohol Misuse by Patients

Jan 28, 2015

Excessive alcohol use adversely affects an estimated 38 million (30%) adults in the United States, but surprisingly, only 1 out 6 say they talk to their doctor, nurse, or healthcare professional about drinking (1). More than 30...

My Paper Was Published. Did Anyone Read It?

Jan 26, 2015

An orthopedist asked me if I could explain why a couple of papers of his did not generate any feedback. He wasn’t even certain that anyone had read them. He enclosed PDFs for me. Not being an orthopedist, I cannot comment...

Protocol-Based Care for Septic Shock

Jan 25, 2015

Until recently, the hospital mortality of patients with severe sepsis and septic shock was 50%. In...

Identifying Patients With Problematic Drug Use in the ED

Jan 25, 2015

According to the Drug Abuse Warning Network, 2.5 million of the 5.1 million drug-related ED visits...

Expert Recommendations for Below-the-Knee PAD

Jan 25, 2015

Infrapopliteal (IP) arterial disease, also known as “below-the-knee” or tibial disease, is a...

Refining Neurosurgery Practices

Jan 23, 2015

The American Association of Neurological Surgeons and the Congress of Neurological Surgeons...

Assessing the Surgical Care of Breast Cancer

Jan 23, 2015

Clinical trials have shown that survival rates appear to be similar for patients with early-stage...

Living for Yourself, Prioritizing Your Needs

Jan 23, 2015

Research indicates that physicians tend to put the needs of their patients before their own....

The Top 10 Heart Un-Healthy Industries

Jan 23, 2015

The below table depicts the prevalence of a history of coronary heart disease or stroke among...

Will Corporate Greed Destroy Our Healthcare System?

Jan 23, 2015

In 2013, the CEO of Aetna earned $33.7 million dollars. The average health insurance CEO salary...

What Is the Best Way to Die?

Jan 19, 2015

A couple of recent articles about dying by well-known physician-authors attracted a lot of media attention. In October 2014, 57-year-old Ezekiel J. Emanuel, writing in The Atlantic, gave a number of reasons why he hoped he would...