Dr. Wes
Patient safety and medical professionalism: How far do the conflicts go?
The importance of demonizing specialists
CABANA trial morphs from mortality trial to composite endpoint trial
Major changes are underway for one of the signature comparative effectiveness research trials promoted by government interests on Capitol Hill as a critical path forward to controlling costs in health care. It seems such research might not be so easy and "cost-effective" as some had hoped.
American Board of Internal Medicine changes governance
Recently, the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) announced "new policies to include non-internist and public members in ABIM governance."
Internists and sub-specialists in medicine everywhere should wonder why.
3 healthcare trends patients will notice in the new year
As we enter the New Year, I like to reflect on where we’ve been and where we’re heading in medicine. By far and away, this is the most tumultuous time I have ever experienced in health care. Doctors and nurses appear stressed and downtrodden, administrators are running scared, desperate to seem "value-added," and patients are scrambling to get seen in these last two days of 2013.
Meaningful use and certification improvements
HHS circulated the following important announcement:
"CMS to Propose New Timeline for Meaningful Use Implementation and ONC to Propose New Regulatory Approach to Certification
Appropriateness criteria and our new medical ethic
If the Hunger Games came to medicine
Mobile health apps and the privacy surrender
It has been interesting watching the development of AliveCor’s mobile phone EKG app.
At first with the beta release of the device it just so cool to see your EKG in real time: just tap the app, put your hands in the device’s over-sized electrodes on the specialized iPhone case and *bam* there it was – your heart’s real-time EKG displayed right before your eyes.
When the carrot is removed from the stick
The field of medicine is one of the most rewarding occupations out there. Few occupations allow such an incredible opportunity to directly impact the life of a fellow human being and see the amazing results of something you did. Few occupations are allowed inside the most intimate and vulnerable moments of the human condition. In a word: amazing.
But medicine for people has quickly given way to medicine for business.