Notes from Dr. RW

Hospital administrators takenote ---don't skimp on the coffee machines.

This review deals with several non-infectious mimics. Presentations of cellulitis which harbor more serious conditions such as nec fash...

A comprehensive review in the Texas Heart Institute Journal covers standard indications (ischemic and non-ischemic cardiomyopathy), unusu...

The premise of this article seems to be that treatment choices should be based on perception and preference. What ever happened to evid...

Free full text from Circulation . Key points: Acute severe AR may be difficult to recognize clinically and is often erroneously...

Due to the pervasive decline in the basic clinical skills of physicians and trainees the stethoscope has been relegated to the status of...

Familial Mediterranean fever is the prototype but many new variants are emerging as explained in this review .

Is it fair to brand the right as anti-science and the left as pro-science? No. Did you know, for example, that Barack Obama said, co...

---as reported in NEJM .

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

This is part of my ongoing attempt to alleviate guideline chaos for hospitalists, one guideline at a time. Here I will attempt a nuts-and-...

The title to this post is a little deceptive. There's way too much content here to take in at a glance. In fact this post may go on re...

--- 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...

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