retired doc's thoughts

In the October 26,2006 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine we find a clinical study and an editorial about lung cancer screening us...

A commentary appears in the October 19,2006 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine regarding allegations about the length to which a...

A thought provoking-and in a way troubling review- in the October 3, 2006 issue of the Annals of Internal Medicine ( "Lack of Evidence ...

The October 12, 2006 issue of The New England Journal of Medicine published an article regarding the use of the second generation antipsych...

A recent article in the September/October issue of the Journal of the American Board of Family Practice by David Hildebrandt called atte...

The editorial commentary by David Graham in the October 4,2006 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association ("COX-2 Inhibit...

In the 1960s, the phenothiazines changed the face of psychiatry when chlorpromazine was shown to be effective treatment for schizophrenia. T...

I written before about the demise of the doctor's lounge in the hospital-the previous site of free coffee, curb stone consultations, ph...

In the September 28, 2006 edition of DB's Medical Rants we find a great quote from Scapel entitled "Are all physicians equal?...

The results of the DREAM study have published in the NEJM (ramipril arm) and the Lancet ( rosiglitizone arm) . This trial will get a lot ...

The September 5, 2006 issue of the Annals of Internal Medicine reports on a NIH Conference on the use of multivitamins/mineral supplements (...

The September 2006 issue of the Annals of Internal Medicine published an article ( Do Oscar Winners Live Longer than less Successful Peers?...

It has not gone unnoticed (whatever does) by the medical blogger world the irony or hypocrisy of Stanford's Medical School prohibiting...

Aspirin is widely used to decrease the risk of heart attacks. It is an essential part of secondary prophylaxis and typically is recommended ...

For years physicians in the office setting have included a digital rectal exam and then tested stool captured by the gloved finger for occul...

I have written before the Quality Improvement Organizations (QICs) .The Sept 5, issue of the Annals of Internal Medicine published another s...

In the August 14,2006 issue of Internal Medicine News we learn of reports that corticosteroids may reduce the morbidity and mortality of sev...

Physicians routinely recommend exercise for patients with the metabolic syndrome -typically walking.Exercise is a generally accepted strateg...

The possibility that health care providers (HCP) might try to game the system and treat the chart when offered or forced to play the P4P gam...

In spite of at least one terrible publication to the contrary-the criticism of which is reviewed here - there can be little doubt that exper...