Notes from Dr. RW

Some nuts and bolts from Emergency Medicine News concerning antibiotic choices, EGDT and activated protein C. There’s also a hint concernin...

Defensive medicine and the fear of litigation, that’s what. RangelMD gives an example . Compelling reading. Via Kevin M.D.

Medical journals are becoming increasingly strict in their disclosure requirements concerning authors’ financial conflicts of interest. Dr. ...

A meta-analysis recently published in BioMed Central Anesthesiology raised troubling questions on the use of recombinant human activated pro...

This review on the diagnosis and management of sepsis from the June 2007 issue of Hospital Physician covers multiple aspects of treatment in...

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That’s what may happen to an Ohio pharmacist.

Herbal woo is a big money industry. It’s coming on strong, largely unchallenged. Compared to the rigorous scrutiny of Big Pharma the N-I c...

If you’re part of a hospitalist program you can bet your administration will be tracking your length of stay and charges per case. Hospital...

The way things are going there may come a time when you have to visit the Mütter Museum in order to see one. If you don’t believe me, next ...

In light of new developments in the thiazolidinedione (TZD) controversy now might be a good time to take stock of where we are in drug thera...

Not too many years ago the adage was “say no to vanco.” That has changed in the CA-MRSA era as vancomycin assumes front line status for many...

CCJM has a full text review outlining clinical features, diagnosis and treatment.

The spectrum of pulmonary vasculitis, notably Churg-Strauss syndrome, Wegener’s gramulomatosis and microscopic polyangiitis, is reviewed in ...

It’s another genetic cause of ventricular arrhythmias and sudden death. It’s not Torsades---the QT interval is not prolonged and the tachyc...

Transfusion of red cells has been associated with adverse outcomes. The search for a safer alternative to red cell transfusion in critically...

How helpful are clinical practice guidelines (CPGs)? How are they most effectively used? A couple of my blogging colleagues have been examin...

Is it a medical myth? Well, the evidence to support the practice is soft according to this article from Emergency Medicine News.

In researching the activities of the American Medical Student Association I ran across a couple of items highlighting their efforts to influ...

Wednesday I criticized AMSA’s promotion of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) and suggested that the organization might be just a ...