Notes from Dr. RW

Recently I objected to the new CMS rules on two principles. First, they are unfair because they operate on a presumption of blame for adver...

Implicit in the new CMS rules for hospital reimbursement is the idea that every patient fall, every catheter related infection and every ...

A recent tirade in NEJM on the U.S. health care system, ironically published as a Perspective piece, accused a USA Today editorial writer o...

This has been covered heavily in the blogs recently. I’ve been mulling over whether to weigh in these last few days, and up to now things...

A review in Current Opinion in Hematology summarizes the evidence on this topic. Interactions between hormonal therapies and intrinsic risk...

Just the basics . Via Continuing Education in Anaesthesia, Critical Care & Pain .

The science behind the latest buzz on vitamin D is summarized in this review from Current Opinion in Rheumatology. The vitamin D receptor i...

This review in Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine compares the atypicals with older antipsychotics and reviews safety concerns. Recommend...

This paper from a few months ago in BMC Medical Education looked at attitudes toward and use of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM...

Statin use is associated with reduced mortality in these conditions according to a study published in Chest.

CCJM review .

Via Thrombosis Journal .

This topic was recently reviewed in the American Journal of Medicine. Cirrhosis of any cause is the principal risk factor, particularly rel...

An update , summarizing key papers for 2006, was published in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. The article i...

Highlights of a recent Cleveland Clinic Grand Rounds covering perioperative cardiovascular medicine, drug eluting stents, statins and cerebr...

---for the National Center for the Promotion of Pseudoscience (NCPP) or, if you prefer, the National Center for Complementary and Alternativ...

The presence of HIT antibodies (antibodies to heparin-platelet factor four complex) has been found in multiple studies to confer risk of art...

And it improved attendance by 38.4% in a recent study published in BMC Medical Education. Pharmaceutical industry support was used to help ...

You should not say the U.S. has the best health care. You should not even think the U.S. has the best health care. So says Dr. Christopher ...

You may be if you hold to certain political views. I’m not talking about extreme positions and ideas that most decent human beings, regardl...