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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A Physician’s Weekly post I wrote last December was on the subject of surgeons possible...
Read MoreEveryone knows there’s a shortage of primary care physicians, especially in rural areas. The state of Missouri has decided to alleviate this problem with a bill, signed into law by the governor this month, authorizing...
Read MoreIt would appear that this is true for surgical patients. A study from England found that mortality rates for patients admitted with high-risk general surgery diagnoses were significantly lower in National Health Service Trust...
Read MoreA few weeks before graduation, a medical school tried to expel one of its students on the basis of unprofessional behavior. What happened? According to Cleveland.com, a US District Court judge ruled that the student could not be...
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As I have written before, there is a veritable cottage industry of papers identifying bacterial...
Read More“NHS junior doctors have little time to eat or sleep.” Said the headline of an article from the Herald in Edinburgh, Scotland. It described a NHS (National Health Service) manual—no longer posted on the...
Read MoreReally? A paper published in April found that about 12 million Americans, or 5% of adults in this country, are being misdiagnosed every year. This news exploded all over Twitter. Anxious reports from media outlets such as NBC...
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Not too long ago, a fourth-year medical student asked me that question. Here’s what I told...
Read MoreA recent article on MedPage Today opened my eyes to a new and apparently growing subspecialty—interventional nephrology. In case you haven’t heard, nephrologists are apparently dissatisfied with the service they are...
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A recent study looked at the effect of paying people to lose weight. The authors randomized 100...
Read MoreStraying out of one’s area of expertise can be dangerous, but Danger is my middle name [Not to be confused with Carlos Danger]. A paper, published online in the journal Circulation, says that every home foreclosure within...
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A Twitter follower wrote me this: “hospital making me use ‘safety scalpel’...
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Are you familiar with a case in Minnesota where a doctor sued a patient’s son for defamation...
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The media often takes a research study’s findings completely out of context and confuses the...
Read MoreRisk-adjusted 30- to 90-day outcome data for selected types of operations done by specific surgeons and hospitals are now being publicly posted online by England’s National Health Service. According to the site, “Any...
Read MoreAn anesthetized patient fell to the floor headfirst from an operating room (OR) table during a laparoscopic appendectomy in Scotland. The table had been tilted into an extreme head-down position to facilitate the operation....
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