The War on Doctors & Destruction of Healthcare
Walking the hospital corridors, many of the comments I overhear patients and others speaking about...
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Month: May 2015
Assessing Aspirin Use for CVD Prevention
Aspirin is used as a primary strategy to help prevent a first occurrence of cardiovascular disease...
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Social Support After AMI
Studies have shown that social support is an important prognostic predictor in older people who...
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Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs: Lessons for ED Personnel
Outlaw motorcycle gangs (OMGs) are an iconic element of the criminal landscape in the United...
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Guidelines for Metastatic Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer
According to current estimates, prostate cancer is the second leading cause of cancer deaths among...
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Decision Aids & Difficult Choices
With advance care planning, clinicians can help honor patient preferences and goals in cases of...
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Surgeons Who Can’t Perform Open Surgery
Now I’m really worried about surgical education. Here’s why: A friend told me that a...
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Just Culture? Just Kidding.
The big health system that owns the hospital where I do much of my elective scheduled surgery has...
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When HF Worsens in the Hospital
Acute heart failure (HF) leads to more than 1 million hospitalizations in the United States each...
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Hypertension: Examining Cost Effectiveness of Treatment
According to current estimates, 44% of the 64 million adults in the United States with...
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Hospital Medicine 2015
New research was presented at Hospital Medicine 2015, the annual meeting of the Society of...
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Managing Migraine in the ED
Migraine is one of the most common disorders for which patients seek medical treatment in the ED....
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Post-Op Pain in Pediatric Urology
Management of pain is a critical aspect of postoperative care in pediatric urology. Currently,...
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Improving Mucus Clearance in COPD
The mucus hyper-secretion that characterizes COPD has been shown to contribute to disease-related...
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An Update on Managing IBS & CIC
IBS and chronic idiopathic constipation (CIC) are among the most common functional...
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Examining Diets for Patients With Diabetes
Studies of patients with type 2 diabetes have shown that a low-carbohydrate diet can achieve at...
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Sexual Risk Behavior & Viral Suppression in Patients With HIV
Research indicates that nearly 90% of new HIV infections in the United States in 2010 were...
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