Notes from Dr. RW

--- from some of our nation's best hospitals . Their safety metrics are too subjective, according to some of the experts. I note, to...

Bleeding on blood thinners is a common problem. Until recently the drill was straightforward. Not so much anymore. Enter the novel antico...

We practice in an era of outcome based medicine. It’s not enough anymore, at least when it comes to things like blood pressure and blood su...

From the Journal of Medical Toxicology . Concerning bleeding complications: However, no therapeutic agent has been accepted to reliab...

Traditionally we look to the QT interval to assess the risk of Torsades des pointes ventricular tachycardia when monitoring the effects of c...

This piece from the folks at ToxTalk caught my eye. It's another example of medicine's swinging pendulum. It looks like physo has...

I haven't examined the actual content but the topic list looks great. It's definitely worth a look . HT to Clinical Cases and Im...

Profiled in NYT . Via Clinical Cases and Images .

From the Paucis Verbis series at Academic Life in Emergency Medicine .

From the Paucis Verbis series at Academic Life in Emergency Medicine .

Brought to you by Mayo Clinic .

The tracer has affinity for brain amyloid .  HT to Clinical Cases and Images .

This blog is not dead. Priorities of life outside the blogosphere came calling. During the hiatus I realized how important a part of my pr...

Here's an interesting slide show from Medscape .

It's not often I see a good article in the lay press on health and medicine. This one from the Chicago Tribune is an exception. It go...

---according to a CBO study as reported in this Medscape piece : Most Medicare demonstration projects aiming to reduce costs and improve th...

---according to a recent announcement. Before getting into the report this might be a good time to compare some attributes of the four “pen...

---with a phase delay of several months. It appears to be related to the pandemic itself, not the vaccination. The mechanism of narcolepsy...

In this study much of the inappropriate use was driven by “prophylaxis” and it was associated with an increased rate of C diff. The author...

We've known for a while that it reduces VTE but there's never been a basis for a claim that it saves lives. According to this first...