Notes from Dr. RW

---can have very similar clinical presentations. It may not be possible to make the distinction without cardiac catheterization according t...

Reviewed in Clinical Pulmonary Medicine.

---medical and non-medical accessible at Google Books. The content appears to be available in its entirety, and the editions, many of them ...

Via Medical News of Arkansas : Medical News of Arkansas spoke to or corresponded through email with four active Arkans...

From a Medicine review : Candida IE should be classified as an emerging infectious disease, usually involving patients with intravascular...

---including aortic dissection, thoracic aortic aneurysm, penetrating atherosclerotic ulcer and intramural hematoma, reviewed in Mayo Clinic...

James Roberts, MD, gives another erudite discussion of an electrocardiographic pattern worth keeping in mind if you're ...

---it's still a good time to be hospitalist job hunting. Via The Hospitalist .

Harriet Hall writing at Science based Medicine offers useful perspective about the current brouhaha and possible consequenc...

I first reported outcome based evidence on the effects of the most maligned pharmaceutical industry campaign here . The campaign was associ...

This time it’s on patients who have recently suffered a myocardial infarction. Once again, as in all the other studies, although the pharm...

From Clinical Infectious Diseases : All adult patients with persistent MRSA bacteremia for greater than or equal to 7 days… The results ...

---is another name for DRESS syndrome and is the topic of a review in Medicine. In contrast to other reviews I’ve linked on this topic th...

Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel is head bioethicist at NIH, one of Obama’s comparative effectiveness mavens and brother of the White House chief of staf...

That seems to be the question du jour concerning the health care reform bill. Although the notion (advanced by Betsy Mc Cau...

I just sent the following email to the Fred Thompson radio show : Dear Fred, I am a physician and a medical blogger. On...

Read it here . Via Medpolitics .

From The Hospitalist .

In this recent study diastolic dysfunction but not systolic dysfunction was associated with adverse outcome in patients undergoing surgery....

Here's a nice little rant from The Refugee over at Hospitalist With A View. Here are some dictionary definitions of ...