John Edwards Disgraces Himself With Regards to Nataline Sarkisyan
The Wall Street Journal just published an article on the Nataline Sarkisyan case and how it has been exploited by presidential candidate John Edwards. I have never endorsed nor rejected a political...
View ArticleProject Steve and Its Detractors
A few days ago, I blogged about Project Steve. Predictably, I ruffled some pro-creationist feathers, particularly those of M. Mitchell who commented.So M., I'm sorry if I've offended you but this is...
View ArticleAre Medical Device Manufacturers About to Get a Truly Free Ride?
If my reading of an article in the latest New England Journal of Medicine is accurate, then the Supreme Court is about to rule on a case of momentous implications.The case is Riegel v. Medtronic and...
View ArticleDisaster Preparedness and Emergency Out-Of-State Physician Licensing
During Hurricane Katrina, I called our local Red Cross chapter to offer my services in Louisiana. I attended their training course to do just that but was then told that I wouldn't be able to volunteer...
View ArticleOutsourcing the Day to Day Stressors of Life
Here's some insight regarding life on the other side of those monuments to outsourcing, Indian call centers. It seems that operators in India are succumbing to the stress of dealing with European and...
View ArticlePhysicians and Their Role in Executions
The New England Journal of Medicine has published a provocative editorial on capital punishment and the physician's role in carrying it out.Read my thoughts on this important editorial here.The New...
View ArticleFrom the Field to Angiogram.
Here's an interesting study in the New England Journal of Medicine.There have been several studies that fairly conclusively demonstrated that reducing the time from the symptoms of a particularly...
View ArticleOf Mice and Men
This caught my eye. It's an article in Yahoo News entitled Humans Crave Violence Just Like Sex. I'm thinking, this has to be noteworthy. Imagine my disappointment in reading the first few lines:New...
View ArticleWho says big government is inefficient?
Courtesy of the InsureBlog: A little USA article on your government at work. So it seems that the NIH can't keep track of the potential conflicts of interest between grant recipients and the companies...
View ArticleService in Medicine, Has it become a quaint anachronism from a bygone era?
Bob Wachter has posted some great points regarding the "service" of radiology.The last paragraphs are priceless:In my NEJM article on dis-location, I described the growing teleradiology trend, driven...
View ArticleGonzo Medical Blogging
Periodically, I will add a new blog to my "blogroll". Unlike many bloggers that maintain such lists, I try to post only the ones I like to read frequently. Some bloggers maintain huge alphabetized...
View ArticleUniversities' Endowment Funds and the Federal Government
Here's an idea I hate (via the instapundit). Congress is considering regulating the amount of university endowments that schools may keep for themselves and how much they have to pass on to students...
View ArticleFrom Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor: The Most Electrifying Lecture You'll Ever Hear
I've heard a lot of lectures in my life but never one like this. This is neuroanatomist Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor giving a talk on the functional differences between the right and left hemispheres of the...
View ArticleThe EMTALA and Inintended Consequences
Edwin Leap wrote a revealing post about one of my personal pet peeves: the EMTALA laws (h/t KevinMD). Read the whole thing.The EMTALA (Emergency Medical and Active Labor Act) mandates that essentially...
View ArticleThose Crazy Politicians and University Endowments
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Massachusetts is contemplating a 2.5% state tax on university endowments in excess of $1 billion per university (via Greg Mankiw's Blog). Now personally, I...
View ArticleA Practical Suggestion for President Bush and Congress
I rarely write about non-medical issues but I have an important policy recommendation that I think will help the country.Several days ago, the media lampooned President Bush for being "snubbed" by the...
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Google Commemorates Memorial Day
Google generally makes special holiday modifications to their homepage logo. Here's Google's celebratory logo for Memorial Day:What kind of statement are they making here? It seems that I'm far from...
View ArticleInteresting Case of "Co-rumination"
I haven't written much about actual medical cases I see here at my hospital but this one intrigued me. Some details have been altered of course.A 30ish female showed up in our emergency department...
View ArticleER Docs Feel the Police Use Excessive Force
To me, this story should be filed under the category of "There's less to this than meets the eye". Apparently a survey of emergency medicine physicians demonstrated their almost universal opinion that...
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