retired doc's thoughts

New guidelines for DVT and PE are appearing in the Feb. Annals Internal Medicine and the Journal of Family Practice and a overview of is fo...

In the January 22, 2007 issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine, Dr. J.B. Richards et al have written a paper providing evidence tha...

For someone who recently finished his 50 th marathon, (with a - modestly put- incredible comeback from a mysterious orthopedic disability) t...

Here is an interesting and alarming story of what went wrong at teaching hospital allegedly because of problems in the system of "ha...

I was impressed by and wrote about an article by Dr. Croskerry who has studied how physicians think and how they can think better diagnos...

The answer to the title question is "yes" if the patient is receiving or has recently received unfractionated heparin(UFH) or low...

A recent blog and a comment by a colleague stimulated my interest in the concept of "disruptive physician". Googling it quickly ...

Here is a summary of a recent JAMA article that should make it clear that the statistical techniques on which a study result may turn are d...

A recent article in Neurology suggests that the combination of coronary artery bypass surgery with carotid endarterectomy may not be a good...

In the Jan. 9, 2007 issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine, there is an interesting article regarding the external validity of randomiz...

It seems- at least from this account of recent FTC action-the likelihood of groups of physicians banding together to successfully negotiat...

Dr. R.W. has posted a useful series of essays highlighting his version of the top issues for 2006 in the field of hospital medicine. Anyone ...

First a great quote, from Michale Thun, VP of Epidemiology and Surveillance Research at the American Cancer society: With epidemiology you...

A JAMA article has generated considerable media attention citing a case control study that linked PPIs (proton pump inhibitors) to an incr...

Dr. Laurence Wellikson seems to believe that the only way -at least a way-to recapture the core of what internist used to do (care for the p...

Thomas Sowell's book "Conflict of Visions" is one of the most insightful and intellectually satisfying books I have ever read...

Seemingly following in the footsteps of the American College of Physicians (ACP) the executive director of the American College of Surgeon...

The ethics of business is not the same as the ethics of medicine but if recent accusations against Lilly are true you might conclude that in...

The FDA seems to making some progress in the Ketek matter.Maybe now we will be seeing less of the ubiquitous Ketex advertising owl on the ba...

Dr. Roy Poses in his Dec.01,2006 posting on Health Care Renewal tackled the topic of the attack of the post-modernists on Evidence Based Med...