Friday, April 29, 2011

Introducing the Sick Hospital blog

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Common sense, straight-to-the-point, very politically incorrect plain talk about hospitalists and hospital medicine. Blogrolled stat.

When is comanagement just a work-around against the global surgical fee?

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All too often in the minds of some, and some health care systems are thinking twice, apparently. See here and here .

The state of hospital medicine 2011

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Via Sick Hospital and Happy Hospitalist .

More on fake-note-real-docs in Wisconsin

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The UW school of medicine has reviewed the incident and is about to issue penalties: “Personnel action will be based on the specific natu...
Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Obamacare's Independent Payment Advisory Board

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It's not an “advisory” board. As Peter Orszag explains, its “advice” is the default policy unless Congress negates it and the President...
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Monday, April 25, 2011

Focused practice in hospital medicine round one---how did it go?

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The very first Internal Medicine recertification exam for focused practice in hospital medicine was given in October. How did it go? This ...
Friday, April 22, 2011

New guidelines for management of carotid and vertebral artery disease

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Full text here . Covers stenting vs surgery and more.
Thursday, April 21, 2011

AHA/ASA guideline for management of cerebral vein thrombosis

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Full text here .
Wednesday, April 20, 2011

AMSA is deeper into woo than I even thought

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More blogging by The Notwithstanding Blog from AMSA 2011. This time it was about the naturopathic and ayurvedic medicine booths there and...
Tuesday, April 19, 2011

What's with all these drug shortages?

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No one seems to have a good answer why. Commentary from Instapundit here . Resource center from ASHP here .

Holistic ER

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Funny stuff . Unfortunately the video can't be embedded. Via Respectful Insolence .
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Blogging the keynote at AMSA 2011

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---delivered by Patch Adams, via The Notwithstanding Blog . Highlights: Dr. Parenti: The 3% of the country who own 97% of the assets thi...
Monday, April 18, 2011

“Performance improvement” CME

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I knew we were moving in this direction but I was not aware that “PI CME” was official. Dan Carlat blogged this yesterday. As one would e...
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A view from inside the American Medical Student Association (AMSA)

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So here's a somewhat contrarian AMSA member who blogged the 2011 AMSA annual conference. Some initial observations : The America...
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An absurd article a day from the medical literature

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Funny stuff. Via Asinine Academia .
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Sunday, April 17, 2011

For anyone following the Righthaven case

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---(and if you blog you need to be) this should be of interest.
Saturday, April 16, 2011

Internet usage caps coming?

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Already here! But from the looks of things you'd have to stream hours and hours and hours of TV and movies each month to exceed the c...
Friday, April 15, 2011

The new medical student syndrome

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Happy writes: Most people think medical student syndrome is the sense of worst case scenario medical students often think about when they...

Romney Care at five

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Via The Lucidicus Project , HT We Stand Firm .

Hospitalist medicine is moving in the wrong direction

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---as DB laments : I watch in amazement at the many physician groups who are deciding that they will just let the hospitalists care for t...
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