Notes from Dr. RW

Here's a New York Times piece profiling one psychiatrist who made the switch for economic reasons: Like many of the nation’s 48,000 ...

Here's an interesting paper from the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine: Intervention team physicians were p...

---has been talked about for years. This piece from Medpage Today is a little dated but is the best summary I could find about it: Alth...

Anca vasculitis & anti gbm View more presentations from Nephrology, NSLIJ A Slideshare presentation.

Concise review in Circulation.

The topic was recently reviewed in Critical Care Medicine. These are now considered overlapping conditions with distinctions based on the ...

One of the main pro Obamacare talking points was the lack of integration of medical care and the inefficiencies reflected in marked regional...

This is the down-and-dirty version. One of the better explanations I've seen. Much more at EMS Airway Clinic .

A study on in-the-field point of care lactate testing was discussed in a recent article in JEMS . Though the original study was a couple of...

The medical news services have been running with this story , a study of a large database in California which looked at the effect of ambula...

The CDC is working on this although I cannot find anything about it on their website. I did find this story from JEMS, an EMS news service...

I agree with the premise of Diana Hsieh's video over at Black Ribbon Project: that Obamacare and other external forces are driving us ...

BiologyMad .

As the blog author points out hyperacute T waves are an early sign and mean viable myocardium at risk!

The external environment is driving it the other way according to Beth Haynes, MD. Go read the article and note the choice Berwick quote. ...

---to save the planet, according to one NYT writer . At least he's up front about the agenda: shrink the economy! HT to Gateway P...

No comment needed. HT to Gateway Pundit .

DB disagrees with some of Atul Gawande's remarks at a recent commencement speech: Which brings us to the third skill that you must ...

Consequences for hypertension. (Via Clinical Cases and Images ). Primary source: BMJ research article : Results 277 (81%) of the 34...

An under recognized cause of sudden hemodynamic collapse in patients with HIT .