Notes from Dr. RW

Teach it in undergrad, of course! Call it Project Head Start. Pre med students, it seems, are taking Boston University’s Chinese Medicine ...

A while back I cited a study which showed a 3.8% rate of development of chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension after PE. This was su...

Lots of good web resources linked here . Via Life Sciences Education .

Jeremy was a paranoid schizophrenic . He and his parents were Scientologists. They refused psychiatric help because it was against their b...

If you’re a St. Louis Cardinal fan you know it’s there. Palpable. So thick you could cut it with a knife. Could you hear the disappointmen...

Who, when and how, from CCJM .

Allan Detsky, guest editorialist in the October 24 issue of CMAJ, writes about conflicts of interest in writing guidelines. Financial confl...

I’m always interested in what Robert Wachter, hospitalist thought leader, has to say on the state of the field. He was recently interviewed...

The Marino Center for Progressive Health in Cambridge, Massachusetts is one of the NCCAM chelation therapy study sites. The clinic features...

An exhaustive review on sepsis in the October 19 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) covers nomenclature, pathophysiology an...

Orac, dangit, you beat me to it . Homeopathy: Holmes, Hogwarts, and the Prince of Wales . This piece in the FASEB Journal isn’t just about ...

Presented at the American Heart Association’s 7th Scientific Forum on Quality of Care and Outcomes Research in Cardiovascular Disease and St...

Five major UK research funders now require open access publishing of all their supported research. We can expect more and more studies to b...

Two brief items appeared in September’s Internal Medicine World Report. General update on the problem. New guidelines with focus on preventi...

Aggravated DocSurg stopped by the virtual doctor’s lounge and shared a couple of interesting new web sites presented at ACS. The venous dise...

Recent blog discussions [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] about ambulance diversion have been generally critical of the Institute of Medicine’s ...

A recent commenter on ER crowding and the IOM said---- “The IOM is basically a government agency whose aim seems to be to find fault with an...

In response to my post on ER overcrowding DB notes that the Institute of Medicine (IOM) is unrealistic on many issues and points out the rel...

A commenter (Okulus) over at Kevin MD’s link to my post on the Institute of Medicine’s recommendations concerning ER overcrowding wrote: Now...

In view of all that’s been written lately on the hazards of ER delays, this Perspective piece in NEJM is timely. The author, Arthur Kellerm...