Notes from Dr. RW

H. Robert Superko, M.D., presented data on genetic polymorphisms (SNPs) and cardiovascular disease. The boosters of comparative effectivene...

Dr. Timothy Fleming gave a nice overview in yesterday’s sessions. Here’s what was of particular interest to me: The CHADS2 score is useful...

I’ve gotten a unique glimpse of health care in New Zealand by attending this conference . One of the faculty members, Timothy Fleming, M.D...

The first day’s sessions have ended. Two more half days to go. I’ve been pouring over my syllabus, driving my wife crazy. Every year I le...

From below the terrace just behind the conference center at Jackson Lake Lodge, Grand Teton National Park. The picture window in the main ...

Pilgrim Creek from under the Colter Bay Road Bridge Bald Eagle, viewed from our Snake River raft Pair of Bald Eagles, viewed from Snake Rive...

Reviewed in the American Journal of Cardiovascular Drugs.

We meet the most interesting people here every year. Tuesday we met Amy Cohen . Today we ran into a couple from New Zealand and had an int...

There’s been another review published in Clinics in Chest Medicine. The term ACS was first used by Fietsam and colleagues [2] in the lat...

Lots of good stuff here . Via Clinical Cases and Images blog .

Here is another of many sepsis reviews, this one published in Clinics in Chest Medicine. It is a comprehensive evidence based review altho...

My own, that is. I'm doing some traveling the next three weeks. Although a few autoposts will keep the blog going,...

---said John Stewart to Betsy McCaughey. Bob Wachter provided a link in the comment thread of Thursday’s post . The unedited footage, in...

The normally affable Bob Wachter adopted an uncharacteristic tone in Thursday’s post : It’s time to fight back. The “death panel” nonsense...

The yield is low, the tests are expensive and reimbursement policies are inconsistent. A recent paper looked at the yield and costs in dif...

Right you are again, Dr. Rich .

Go read Kevin’s commentary over at CNN. He practices in New Hampshire and has been an observer of the unintended consequences of nearly u...

Via the First Thoughts blog : President Obama gave humankind a huge promotion the other day, claiming a partnership with God. Hubristic? Y...

Interesting reviews and commentary : The Literature, Arts, & Medicine Database is an annotated multimedia listing of prose, poetry, film...

Many of the alarmists about the end of life counseling provision in HR 3200 would be satisfied if that small section of the ...