Notes from Dr. RW

They have an alert out concerning respiratory depression and QT prolongation. Via Journal Watch . But, hey, this isn’t all that new. You r...

The recent Washington Post piece about the Libby Zion case (Via Kevin MD ) might leave some readers on the edges of their seats! After menti...

Welcome to Grand Rounds Vol. 3 No. 10! Many thanks to all who contributed, and special thanks to Nick for all the hard work organizing this ...

There’s no correlation according to this large study in the Journal of Hospital Infection.

Patients with myocardial infarction frequently discontinue evidence based medications (aspirin, statins, beta blockers) soon after discharge...

This CCJM review provides useful perspectives on the use of vancomycin and the newer antibiotics linezolid, quinupristin-dalfopristin, dapto...

A while back I wrote a series of posts criticizing the Institute of Medicine’s proposals to remedy ER crowding, and their incredible stateme...

Data from Phoenix Emergency Medical Services presented at the American Heart Association meetings this month showed improved survival after ...

I figured they pretty well knew the layout of the human body when the classic edition of Gray’s Anatomy was published in 1918. Sure, there ...

I posted a little over a week ago about Rate MDs , an open access, free for all consumer website where anyone can anonymously say just about...

We’ve long been aware of two important hygienic (non-pharmacologic) interventions for DM-2, those being diet and exercise. Now evidence is ...

AMSA is kicking off its annual PharmFree Day with much fanfare and this statement : “AMSA members believe in providing the highest quality ...

Adams declared to the students “Our government is worse than Hitler” and that today’s medical students would live to see the extinction of t...

Time magazine thinks it is . Time writer Douglas Waller extols the VA’s electronic medical record, cites this study which showed lower mort...

A silent majority of health care professionals still favor them according to this Medscape poll .

Kevin MD points us to this article about doctors’ organizations upset over the increasingly popular web site Rate MDs . The organizations b...

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...