Is the Surgeon Still “Captain of the Ship”?
A Kentucky appeals court recently ruled that a surgeon was not responsible for a burn caused by an...
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Month: June 2015
Is Marcus Welby Medicine Dead?
The patient was an elderly priest who had been awake all night vomiting. He was too sick to come...
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High Expectations & Physician Suicide
A friend on Facebook recently forwarded a news article and a link to a physician blog about the...
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Preventing SSIs: An Evidence-Based Update
According to recent data, surgical site infections (SSIs) are common complications in acute care...
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Hip Fracture Surgery: Costs & Benefits
According to current estimates, more than 300,000 patients—mostly people aged 65 and older—sustain...
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Cardiometabolic Risk, Type 2 Diabetes, & Heart Disease
The term cardiometabolic risk refers to having a high 10-year and/or lifetime risk for...
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Malpractice Reform’s Effect on ED Care
It is often claimed that “defensive medicine” is a major source of wasteful medical spending. One...
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Updated Guidelines for NSTE-ACS
Recently, the American College of Cardiology and American Heart Association (ACC/AHA) updated...
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An Update for Preventing MRSA
In 2008, the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America and Infectious Diseases Society of...
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Heart Rhythm 2015
New research was presented at Heart Rhythm 2015, the Heart Rhythm Society’s annual scientific...
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Woman Refuses Episiotomy, Gets One Anyway
A woman in California is suing her obstetrician because he performed an episiotomy that she had...
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Rant: Vocabulary Matters
We had a speaker at our regular Wednesday trauma meeting today, some administrator who was telling...
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Is the AMA Really the Voice of Physicians in the US?
The American Medical Association is all over the media as representing the voice of doctors. Even...
Read MoreThe Doctor Will Saw You Now
One of the biggest medical stories of last week involved an unusual case from Scotland. During the course of a leg amputation at Ayr Hospital in Scotland, the surgeon discovered a metal plate in the patient’s leg. Lacking the...
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