Notes from Dr. RW

I appreciate my detractors. By raising unanticipated counter arguments they help me sharpen my focus. They make me think. My recent post ...

Lots of uncritical promotion of woo is to be found here in The UCSF Guide to Integrative Medicine . Although the fine print has the usual d...

In October 1984 I attended the annual meeting of the Arkansas state chapter of the American College of Physicians, held at a resort on Greer...

The recent discussions on Internal Medicine as a specialty must have pushed The Dinosaur’s buttons . Well, a dinosaur should be able to rem...

Volume 1 issue 1 of the ICAM (Integrative, Complementary and Alternative Medicine) Newsletter is up , featuring IV vitamin therapy for chron...

My post about the lack of support from the American College of Physicians for Internal Medicine as a specialty drew some interesting commen...

On line CME is increasing in popularity because it’s easy to access and, in most cases, free. A review of on line CME in the November 17 20...

----and it might as well be official. I’ve been talking about this for some time, and yesterday Retired Doc nailed it with this post about h...

In his intro to Dr. Wallace Sampson’s video editorial on faulty CAM research , Dr. George Lundberg, Editor in Chief of MedGenMed declares “I...

This was presented at the 15th World Congress of Cardiology. Via Internal Medicine World Report .

Community associated methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA), as I blogged before , is a newly emerging pathogen, distinct for...

According to this article about famous patients, treating a celebrity could be hazardous to your profession by luring you away from evidenc...

Apparently so . Maybe it’s a good thing given the rising credulity toward bogus “energy” theories in medical school these days. I wonder h...

The medical blogosphere’s response to the death of Anna Nicole Smith is beginning to read like a virtual CPC . So far myocarditis, seroton...

The American Medical Student Association recently sponsored its 2007 Circle of Healers Retreat . I knew there was woo at these gatherings b...

Leukotriene inhibitors are popular agents in the treatment of asthma and allergic rhinitis. Although their use has outpaced evidence there ...

Niraj L. Sehgal, MD, MPH and Robert M. Wachter, MD reviewed the hospitalist field in the January 2007 issue of Resident and Staff Physician....

Noninvasive ventilation following extubation has not been shown to be beneficial in unselected patients. This study , reviewed in Critical ...

The excerpt of the documentary Big Bucks, Big Pharma: Marketing Disease and Pushing Drugs opens with accusations that experts, influenced by...

Amid speculation on the causes of the deaths of Anna Nicole Smith and her son Daniel there has been mention of methadone . Daniel Wayne Smi...