Dr. Wes

For reasons that escape me, Dr. Wes has found he has reached a period of critical blog block. I've had this happen before, and have sur...

From Matthew Holt at the Health Care Blog : The parallels are obvious. In American health care policy, for the Big 3, substitute the AHA, Ph...

Medical blogging's Grand Rounds, this week's medical blog roundup, is up over at SeeFirstBlog . -Wes

If we want to see where the money in health care is going, look to the stock market. Cerner, one of the big players in health information te...

Today, I participated in Chicago's 8th annual Bike the Drive where, for a brief five hours between 5 and 10AM, Lake Shore Drive is clos...

It used to be 47 million . Now it's $65.5 trillion . -Wes

Better keep ordering them for women, even at age 66 . -Wes h/t: Instapundit .

... to pay for a heart transplant . Gotta love Twitter. (Just be careful ). (Happy Memorial Day!) -Wes

There are some things that Electronic Medical Records do well and there are some things that Electronic Medical Records do poorly. To say th...

I read Judith Graham's blog Triage in the Chicago Tribune this morning. It describes "three little stitches" that cost $90...

"I know an old lady who swallowed a fly. I don't know why, she swallowed that fly..." - An old children's folk song. Hard ...

Today, Medtronic began notifying physicians and patients about a new advisory (pdf) on some of their Kappa and Sigma series of pacemakers m...

“You’re not going to kill me, are you?” “No sir, we’ll take good care of you.” “What?” I shouted: “We’ll take good care of you!” “Good. How...

The "Truth" Peter R. Orszag , director of the White House Office of Management and Budget: "... this week a stunning thing ha...

Boston Convention Center May, 2009 Well, maybe the Heart Rhythm Society Meeting wasn't quite as bad as depicted in the above photoshoppe...

The Heart Rhythm Society's Scientific Sessions will kick off tomorrow in Boston, MA. This is where the latest and greatest ideas in he...

Big layoffs were announced today at Loyola University Medical Center: The Loyola University Health System in west suburban Maywood Tuesday ...

It was interesting to see the response to free food offered by Oprah during her promotional stunt for Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC). For tho...

... for their garden: $160 heart-shaped watermelons . -Wes

What if there were one pill that contained most of our drugs for managing coronary heart disease? We've already seen the marriage of ant...