Notes from Dr. RW

---and there’s no sign of it getting better any time soon. DB has written another excellent post on the importance of Internal Medicine. H...

The Clinical Cases and Images Blog recently cited a study on how house officers utilize on line information resources at the point of care, ...

A few vocal individuals and groups are beating the drum for the elimination of pharmaceutical industry support for continuing medical educat...

Theresa Chan over at Rural Doctoring just attended Bob Wachter’s 12th Annual Hospital Medicine course . While there she did some profuse Tw...

A shrill minority of critics are calling for a ban on drug company support of CME. Though devoid of evidence and not shared by the vast maj...

Hundreds of short lectures for health care providers and students are freely available for viewing on You Tube and the Clinical Cases and Im...

Retired Doc recently announced : What with the downtime imposed by a hurricane and the confluence of a bunch of other family and personal st...

From Expert Review of Anti-Infective Therapy via Medscape .

In what would appear an attempt at being fair and balanced Academic Medicine has published a counterpoint to an earlier proposal to dissolve...

---and that’s evidence based. Here’s an actual study to add to my growing collection of anecdotes.

---for critically ill patients? For patients with CAD? What about platelet transfusions? A recent article in Today’s Hospitalist presents ...

Obsolete: Does the hospitalist model offer value? Emerging: As hospitalists, what are our values? What started out as a congratulatory no...

When it comes to the risk of QT prolongation and Torsade de pointes, older psychiatric drugs are NOT better. According to this review in the...

A collection from Today’s Hospitalist.

A largely promotional and uncritical treatment of CAM in Student BMJ .

These are some tips that medical director gives to new hospitalist recruits fresh out of training. Some of us old dogs may also find these ...

A previously healthy 38 year old woman presented with shock, elevated cardiac markers and low ejection fraction. I don’t usually link to ca...

When criticized for their non-evidence based and unscientific claims the woomeisters like to counter with statistics pointing to the high ra...

Recently I wrote two posts in support of internal medicine as a unique specialty. Since then Happy Hospitalist and DB have weighed in. ...

Today’s Hospitalist reports on a presentation on this topic at SMH 2008 and links us to the free full text guidelines . This is an area of ...