Friday, October 08, 2010

Another performance system that doesn't work: SCIP

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Being an Internal Medicine type I don't know a whole lot about SCIP so I'll leave the deconstruction to Skeptical Scalpel , guest bl...

They myth of the normal coronary arteriogram

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Via Dr. Venkatesen .

Restriction of drug reps and samples in a family practice clinic

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---resulted in decreased prescribing of promoted brands but an increase in overall prescription costs . Via Med Policy .

New combo pills may make a difference

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Drugs like Caduet have been dismissed as mere gimmicks or patent extenders. So I found this study interesting: Background Prior studie...

What's new with C. diff?

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Not much in the treatment arena, but new epidemiologic patterns are emerging. From a recent review  : Clostridium difficile infection in...

Atrioesophageal fistula after radio frequency ablation

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This has got to be the scariest complication of RFA. I've never seen a case. This is the most detailed case report I've seen. It...
Thursday, October 07, 2010

How much basic science do you need to learn in order to be a doctor?

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I'm revisiting this topic, which I blogged about a few weeks ago , because it has surfaced again with this post by DB as the jumping of...
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Slideworld

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Slides from lots of lectures in various areas of medicine. I don't know where these all came from or how good they are but the few I s...

Erik DeLue on suing hospitalists

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I always enjoy reading Erik DeLue's pieces in Today's Hospitalist. A recent article about the legal risks hospitalists face was pr...

Waist circumference is associated with mortality

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--- no matter how you look at it .

Go watch a comedy

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It works wonders for your nitric oxide . Via Dr. Venkatesan .

More on premed education and the predictors of med school success

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A while back I blogged on this recent single center study which showed that a small, select group of students who bypassed the traditional...
Wednesday, October 06, 2010

The changing profile of pyogenic liver abscess

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Klebsiella pneumoniae is emerging as the most important pathogen. Some cases are polymicrobial. Reviewed in CCJM.

Laptop Leg?

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AKA toasted skin syndrome . H/T to Instapundit .

More medicine You Tube lectures

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Davidlaw888's channel .

Anticoagulation for PE: start it in the ER

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From Chest : Results: In-hospital and 30-day mortality rates were 3.0% and 7.7%, respectively. Patients who received heparin in the ED ha...

Medscape CME on Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Deficiency

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This Medscape CME activity is a general overview of clinical features, genetics, diagnosis and management of AATD. Being sponsored by t...
Tuesday, October 05, 2010

Myeloma tests

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Nice update at Renal Fellow Network .

Colchicine halves the incidence of postpericardiotomy syndrome

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---with a NNT of 8. The treatment was well tolerated. Presented at the European Society of Cardiology 2010 .

Campbellteaching You Tube channel

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Lots of lectures on medicine and physiology. What I've seen looks good but caveat emptor .