Notes from Dr. RW

Reviewed in the Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases .

Dr. Helen and California Medicine Man tipped me off to this fascinating paper in JAMA. House staff, fellows and faculty with research back...

Here are a couple of additional points I should have made in last night's rant on the chelation related death of Abubakar Tariq Nadama....

Orac recently posted an update on the story of Abubakar Tariq Nadama and noted that the wheels of justice are finally turning as Dr. Roy ...

It was reviewed in the Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases . The review distinguishes it from other eosinophilic diseases with pulmonary manif...

---is now on line at American Family Physician.

The 4th annual Mayo Clinic Update in Hospital Medicine was completed today. It was my first time to attend this particular conference and th...

Continuing from my last post --- How should doctors decide whether to administer corticosteroids to patients with septic shock in the wake o...

Before heading down for the final day of sessions I thought I’d mention a few noteworthy items from the course content that particularly imp...

It only takes one counter-example to disprove an absolute statement like “fondaparinux ( Arixtra ) never causes HIT”. We now have a counter-...

I revealed in last night’s post that the Mayo Clinic CME conference in hospital medicine I’m attending had “integrated” some woo into an oth...

When scheduling conflicts prevented me from attending Bob Wachter’s Hospital Medicine Conference I consoled myself by signing up for Mayo C...

I read with interest this post from the Clinical Cases and Images blog which points to a paper in the Archives of General Psychiatry demonst...

Over the last couple of years Orac and I along with a few other bloggers have posted innumerable examples of uncritical promotion and teachi...

In today’s post Panda Bear likens the patient to a person seeking automotive repairs: And yet I am not so confident in my intelligence that ...

Dr. Anonymous hosts for the second time. (His first hosting was about this time last year and can be found here ). That’s not all! Dr. Anony...

Published in the British Journal of Cardiology, via Medscape . The free access full text article (made possible with the help of your frien...

---in your patient with resistant hypertension. It’s more common than formerly believed . (Via Medscape).

A meta-analysis published in CMAJ. I recently posted similar evidence here .

This web site from Medical College of Wisconsin is THE resource for palliative care. Some subsections, such as the one on patient controlle...