Notes from Dr. RW

I blogged Wednesday that I thought I smelled politics in the JAMA article on fetal pain and suggested that the authors should have disclose...

when it has no physiologic or pharmacologic plausibility in the first place? This is a distortion of evidence based medicine which takes emp...

In the latest issue of JAMA is an article about fetal pain which makes the case that abortion providers should not have to inform women abo...

Hospitals have long been concerned about medication errors during the flow of in patient care. Until recently, however, relatively little at...

I blogged about this recently . Among other things I pointed out that an essential component of evidence based medicine (EBM) was involvemen...

A systematic review in the April 27 issue of JAMA was blogged about by Inner Visions on May 8, and has more recently been given the status ...

I recently blogged an ideal description of evidence based medicine. I gave examples to point out that it’s onerous, and I implicitly questi...

It occurs to me that the ways we read medical literature fall into at least two categories. First there’s the type of reading we do to pract...

My recent post on the effects of drug industry marketing drew a difficult and insightful question: “RW, how do you propose to measure patie...

Kevin MD and Blogborygmi cited this article about the influence of drug sampling on residents’ prescribing behavior. There have been nu...

Yesterday DB of DB’s Medical Rants blogged about patients participating in treatment decisions, citing this article in the Journal of Genera...

The current issue of Annals of Internal Medicine contains a paper highlighting the importance of familial dilated cardiomyopathy. In a seri...

In the July 11 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine is a survey from the National Anticoagulation Benchmark and Outcomes Report Steering ...

This week's New England Journal of Medicine reported a study of atorvastatin treatment for patients with type 2 diabetes undergoing hem...