Doctor's Voice
Feb 16, 2021
This is one of a collection of stories that are like "Final Destination" meets "The Monkey's Paw" (W. W. Jacobs, 1902). As such, they are tragedies more than either mysteries or horror, and would appe...
Feb 08, 2021
The purpose of the “Love Your Liver!” (#LoveYourLiver) campaign is to educate the public and at-risk populations about liver disease and thereby help to prevent hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). By ...
Feb 08, 2021
The following is the first of a collection of short stories that are like "Final Destination" meets "The Monkey's Paw" (W. W. Jacobs, 1902). As such, they are tragedies more than either mysteries or h...
Feb 04, 2021
By Physician’s Weekly Blogger, Skeptical Scalpel In the summer of 2018, Bradley Ginn Sr. died in an ambulance while being taken to a hospital in Bellingham, Washington. The fire department ambula...
Feb 03, 2021
Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the fourth highest cause of cancer-related death worldwide, and incidence in the US has tripled in the last four decades. Chronic viral hepatitis is the leading pathw...
Jan 29, 2021
A foundational barrier to job seekers and staff is the often impenetrable thicket of jargon used to describe vacancies and positions. These often lead to missed opportunities, confusions, and disappoi...
Jan 18, 2021
By Physician's Weekly Blogger, Skeptical Scalpel My comments are in italics. Over the course of my 45 or so years in the business, I have noticed many patient charts contain errors. I’ve never...
Jan 12, 2021
New information is published almost daily about the coronavirus pandemic. Since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, there have been many thousands of articles and commentaries published ...
Jan 07, 2021
Physician burnout is a serious problem with serious consequences; it is associated with increased risk of depression, impaired quality of life, substance abuse, and suicide. Not surprisingly, in a rec...
Jan 06, 2021
Injections are nasty, but the benefits of getting the COVID-19 vaccine outweigh the risks, no matter how you slice it. I don’t like injections. Never have, never will. I see in...
Jan 05, 2021
Written by Physician's Weekly Blogger, Skeptical Scalpel The estate of Rodney Knoepfle successfully sued a Montana hospital for not honoring his wish to be treated as “Do Not Resuscitat...
Dec 22, 2020
“SARS-CoV-2 is getting all these strange mutations. Should I be worried that the vaccine may not work?” The simple answer: most likely not! Here is how it works: All of us might have ha...
Dec 21, 2020
Last month we looked at the laws about mask mandates. This month we will look at some questions about how a mandate that you set up in your own office can play out as a practical matter. Before ...
Dec 15, 2020
Especially in a pandemic. By Physician’s Weekly blogger, Skeptical Scalpel The Oregon Medical Board suspended the license of family practitioner Steven Latulippe for what it called “...
Dec 06, 2020
I take ER calls as a plastic surgeon. The ER doctor performs the primary repair on cases for which they determine don’t warrant calling me and tells the patients to see me for follow-up. If the pati...
Dec 05, 2020
The following is the second installment of the recently launched “Diversity in Medicine” blog by Philomena Asante, MD, MPH, that will highlight a healthcare institution, medical educational progra...
Dec 02, 2020
By Physician’s Weekly blogger, Skeptical Scalpel Two papers using the same data about the same topic were published in the same surgical journal one month apart. They came up with completely oppo...
Nov 19, 2020
The media is reporting the division of “sides” people are taking when it comes to the pandemic. Political agendas are pervasive and infiltrate people’s thoughts around COVID-19. As a physician, ...
Nov 19, 2020
Answer: The way they are taught is out of date. By Physician's Weekly blogger, Skeptical Scalpel A guy named Steven Levitt is tired of helping his teenagers with their quadratic equations an...
Nov 09, 2020
Written by Physician's Weekly blogger, Skeptical Scalpel A survey of 3693 first and second-year surgical residents found that 1775 (48.1%) said medical school did not adequately prepare them for th...