Dr. Wes
Doctors go into debt to cover board certification fees
I have recently realized that if I want to remain board certified in cardiovascular disease and cardiac electrophysiology, I must begin the lengthy process to re-certify now. No longer are doctors board certified for life; the process must be repeated very ten years. For me, it won’t be long before I’m taking the tests for the third time and I carry two board certifications that are subject to this every-10-year requirement.
Is the world’s smallest medical camera coming to a surgical suite near you?
Social networking the “the perfect disruptor” for overregulated research
With overregulation of the clinical research arena, the whole area is ripe for disruption, especially for research performed on rare disorders. Today, it appears that a new mode of assessing efficacy of novel therapies using social media might just be the perfect disruptor:
Doctors’ privacy on the line as conferences track their movements
Clinical guidelines increase in number, emulating federal tax rules growth
The graph below from the Cato Institute demonstrates the growing complexity of the U.S. tax code over the years.
After doing my taxes recently and trying to track the ins and outs of the law for my wife’s private practice, I can attest to its accuracy.
ACC sessions: The land of make believe
Yesterday, I arrived at the Land of Make-Believe: The 2011 American College of Cardiology Scientific Sessions in New Orleans.
Doctors’ fear of federal prosecution lowers ICD procedures
From the lawyer-published Healthcare Compliance Blog: