Saturday, July 31, 2010

Disruptive behavior on the House floor

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Via Gateway Pundit .
Friday, July 30, 2010

The most unintentionally funny movie ever made---part 7

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Local celebrity Nick Nixon is featured in the opening scene, “as himself.”

Missouri Prop C

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This should be interesting to watch on August 3. Here's a little background . H/T to Gateway Pundit .
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Grassley questions Berwick

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---and some insightful comments by Dr. Wes .

Do you really need hard core basic science in premed?

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It may not be necessary according to this very small single institution study . Kids who majored in the humanities and skipped organic chem...
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How much does public reporting tell about real quality?

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Little if anything . H/T to Med Rants .

Hepatorenal syndrome

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Nice update from the Renal Fellow Network .

For good outcomes in CPR

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--- it takes a village .

Another flawed PE review

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---again making the non-evidence based recommendation that CTA is the preferred initial strategy for diagnosis. This time from NEJM .
Thursday, July 29, 2010

More on the dosage and route of corticosteroids for acute exacerbation of COPD

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A recent feature on Med Page Today prompted me to revisit this study which showed equivalence of lower dose oral steroids and high dose I...

Berwick preparing a point-by-point rebuttal

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---for his eventual hearings according to this article . Will he be asked the right questions ?
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Conventional CPR no better than compression only in two just published trials

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Just out in NEJM, two RCTs. No difference in this study and a trend toward better outcomes for compression only in patients with primary c...

The newspeak dictionary of assisted suicide and euthanasia

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Via Secondhand Smoke .

ICU sedation is a risk factor for infection

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---in this review .

Noncontrast CT to exclude appendicitis

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---was just fine in this systematic review .

Adherence to heart failure guidelines

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---is still abysmally low .
Wednesday, July 28, 2010

I forgot my own fifth blogiversary!

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I just realized it today, a few days late. Ordinarily I would have let it pass, but this is a milestone. It's a good time to reflect a...
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Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation pilot projects

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---are in effect research on human subjects. What about the ethics of this research? asks Dr. Wes .

The UK's reality check about the National Health Service

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Apparently they're not as romantic about their own health care system as Berwick is according to this government white paper (H/T to Dr...

Unraveling the enigma of Donald Berwick

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In several earlier posts I said that Berwick's detractors as well as his supporters take a simplistic approach about his positions. A n...