Notes from Dr. RW

  The American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine published a consensus statement on the use of ANCA testing in...

The current issue of the American Journal of Medicine (the Green Journal) has an article titled Top Myths of Diagnosis andManagement of Infe...

What is a diagnostic time out? Succinctly defined, it’s a deliberate exercise in differential diagnosis and systematic clinical reasoning in...

This article from Academic Emergency Medicine, published in 2002, remains applicable today. It makes the point that heuristics in medicine ...

I found an interesting post about cognitive shortcuts in medicine. I have a minor objection to the title of the post which is Cognitive Erro...

Ever since variation was declared to be an enemy of medicine there has been a multifaceted unrelenting effort to constrain the autonomy of c...

Hospital medicine has changed. The change has been brought by business and regulatory pressures rather than the core values of internal med...

  From a recent review in Current Opinion in Critical Care Medicine : Purpose of review The aim of this study was t...

  From a recent NEJM review on this topic : In November 2019, the CDC released an updated version of its antibiotic-resista...

  Here's an update on this topic recently published in Cardiology in Review. The original Conn syndrome was described ...

From a recent report in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine : Rationale: Although early antimicrobial discont...

  In its original notion, yes.   In its widespread popular distortion, no.  Harriet Hall explains.    

  A recent article in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine about hypoxemia and covid-19 concludes wi...

From a recently published study : Purpose The aim of this study was to investigate whether oral anticoagulants can provide effica...