Dr. Wes

As my head reels at the implications of the IRS scandal mushrooming in Washington, the IRS's recently disclosed ability to access e-mai...

It wasn't the fact that pop-star Lindsey Lohan's father, Michael Lohan, was hospitalized that caught my eye, nor was it the splashy ...

It was an interesting tweet that referenced a soon-to-be-published case report from the Annals of Emergency Medicine (via @EmergencyDocs ) ...

They sat anxiously waiting for their loved one to enter the holding area after the procedure, one nervously clutching her purse, another tod...

Give me your medication list and I'll tell you your health problems. It happens every day in emergency rooms across the country as con...

From CBS News : President Obama is planning to hand the U.S. Commerce Department authority over a forthcoming cybersecurity effort to create...

Call your lawyer first : After a few clients ran into difficulty getting information about adult children who were ill, Sheila Benninger, an...

I saw this in a recent nursing note: Urine noted to be bloody without clots. Text message sent to 2290 (trauma pager) about hematuria. Patie...

Fellow cardiac electrophysiologist Leslie Saxon, MD thinks patients should own their medical device information in the era of "body co...

Do you have disability insurance? Do you want to utilize it? Well, my friend, if you want to tap into the disability coffers, plan on surr...

“If you change a patient’s appointment don’t forget to enter a reason why in the comment field. Do you know, is he a H.M.O., P.P.O. or P.O....

A while ago I was called to the Psych floor to see a patient with a cardiac arrhythmia. I thought I would check on the patient’s history vi...

Todd Stroger, the elected Cook County Commissioner here in Chicago, never wanted the public to know that he needed surgery for prostate canc...

HIPAA, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 , contains privacy provisions that provide "protection" of ...

Walter Olson reviews the implications of Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 ( HIPAA ) following the Virginia Tech ...