Notes from Dr. RW

Despite popular opinion CT pulmonary angiography has not emerged as the diagnostic modality of choice for PE. Finally, 16 years after PIOPED...

Heated discussion continues about the Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ) since my post May 20 . The bitter dispute between the jour...

This study looked at low molecular weight heparin in various subsets of patients with atrial fibrillation, published in Stroke. Outcomes we...

This bench to bedside review in Mayo Clinic Proceedings covers clinical trials of platelet antagonists and discusses the biologic mechanisms...

I knew there was another reason to miss Medpundit. She was, on occasion, willing to challenge the PC orthodoxy in medicine. In researchin...

Perhaps so, opines Chris Rangel . State boards, suffering from an image of being too lax, are under public pressure to police the medical p...

Just in: For patients with ALI and ARDS, pull the PA catheter and keep ‘em dry . These long awaited results have been posted on line ahead o...

My latest find is Internal Medicine Grand Rounds (traditional Grand Rounds that is) at the University of Nebraska. Noteworthy: Dr. Martin To...

Not even cardiologists, according to this study from last year in Heart Rhythm . There are many pitfalls. Sometimes the T wave is not well...

Here’s what takes place when you order blood products. From CMAJ.

Politics versus science, editorial independence versus accountability Dr. John Hoey wants editorial independence. Maybe he should start a bl...

Try the on line calculators at calories per hour.

Since I last checked a few years ago this resource has become a gem. It’s a vast and easy to navigate collection of reference material—more...

1 light year in angstroms 1 ml in bushels 9th root of 4 360 joules in BTUs

The Canadian Institute for Health Information has released its first survey on health care wait times, reported here in CMAJ. The wait for ...

At least one, over at Medskool , who offers this take on basic science in medical school.

This week’s JAMA republished the March 3 MMWR piece on chelation associated deaths being investigated by the CDC. This was spun by the CDC ...

Somehow I can’t quite let this go. Dr. Rangel’s post and my reply on the question of how much basic science should be taught in medical sc...

A letter to the Annals of Internal Medicine seems to suggest it is. Dr. Ashok Daftary writes “Academic medicine is the carpenter that fashio...

ER and critical care docs I’ve worked around seem to have figured this out some time ago, and now we have high level evidence to support the...