Dr. Wes
Cybernetic medicine
Cybernetics, the scientific study of control and communication in the animal and the machine, used to be the stuff of science fiction. Today, thanks to a Faustian bargain between corporations, regulators, and politicians, it is defining medicine.
Every day, the exponential explosion of data entry and regulatory requirements doctors endure boggles the mind, all in the name of “health care.”
To the ABIM: What real life-long learning should look like
He left a little early to stop by the cath lab to see his patient before her procedure. Cordial “Hello’s” and “Good mornings” and “Any last questions?” were mentioned before she signed her consent. The team was working feverishly to prepare her for her procedure. “Have you met the anesthesiologist yet?” was next, and almost on cue, the anesthesiologist arrived and took over for a bit.
Where to teach?
As I begin another year teaching EKG’s to our new residents, I find I am increasingly asking myself “Where to teach?”
The tradeoffs of Obamacare
What main stream media misses in the MOC debate
This morning the American Board of Medical Specialties’ (ABMS) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program debate reached a larger mainstream media audience when the Wall Street Journalpublished their article by Melissa Beck entitled “Skill Reviews Upset Doctors.”
Should cardiologists boycott the 2014 TCT/ACC Conference?
The game of numbers
The dark underbelly of health care is becoming all too visible now.
Fresh faces in neatly pressed white coats are in the halls. Eager. Enthusiastic. Clearly very bright. All hoping for a moment, an experience, an encounter that makes all their hard work worth it. Surely they’ll have one, but not before the thousands of keyboard clicks, the mandatory lectures, rounds and lots of lengthy, lonely call nights.
ABIM’s new research on physicians
Paid NEJM subscriptions: There’s no such thing as a free lunch
ACC14: The quickening pace of change
I just returned from the American College of Cardiology and wanted to write down a few of my 50,000-foot impressions from the meeting for, as the song goes, the times, they are a-changin’.