Notes from Dr. RW

Remember the brouhaha almost two years ago about the JAMA meta-analysis on 30 day mortality with the use of nesiritide ? The increased mort...

A popular practice in anticoagulant bridging with enoxaparin is to continue it in full therapeutic doses (1mg/kg Q 12 H) through the evening...

A decade after the birth of Dolly the cloned sheep CMAJ reflects on the state of the science.

DB of Med Rants offers some inspiring words on being a great physician. Put a face with a name and watch his Medscape Webcast Video Editor...

It was a first for this blog. I removed a comment in reference to my post on Lyme disease activism . I appreciate and learn from commenters ...

It’s an underappreciated fact that The Beatles played an important role in delivering the CT scan to clinical medicine and making it ready ...

About this time last year a New England Journal of Medicine Perspective piece announced the “ collapse ” of the Canadian Medical Association...

From Family Practice Management . Via Medpundit .

It’s not the expensive meals, junkets or honoraria. It’s the fact that the drug companies are taking a huge public relations and financial ...

Doctors who gratuitously bash the drug companies have a little help from the media, it appears . Via Kevin MD

I’ve been tagged by Angry Doctor to spread the meme (originated, appropriately enough, here ) of blogs that make me think . These are blog...

The patient had resistant hypertension , with no assignable cause of secondary hypertension despite “scores of tests” and evaluation by nume...

JAMA News reports that methadone deaths are increasing far faster than deaths from other types of poisoning, a trend observed between 1999 ...

----from Retired Doc .

…and does a nice job of parsing the issue of “chronic Lyme disease.” I had a similar experience a while back.

Medical Economics recently interviewed several experts regarding Google as a tool for medicine and the responses were mixed. Google is all t...

Fox News shows us a faxed request for medications (see pdf link) for “M. Chase”, Smith’s purported pseudonym. It includes dilaudid injectab...

Note: I had the following post in preparation when Medpundit , Dr. Wes and Kevin M.D. commented on this issue. At the Cleveland Clinic Hea...

Go read Retired Doc’s summary of an Annals of Internal Medicine survey of ACP general internist members and an accompanying editorial by two...

Now you can access woo at the point of care. AMSA’s updated handbook , concise and trimmed down (and able to fit in your lab coat pocket), ...