Dr. Wes

I call it " device creep :" a form of extrapolation of clinical trial data to justify the addition of more advanced (and expensive...

Most of us want change for our healthcare system. Real change... ... for the better. But when we think of "change," most of us thi...

It's happening all over the place. Cardiology practices being consumed by large hospital systems: Charlotte, North Carolina , Greensboro...

The Brits showed this ad from the patient's perspective: Although one would hope the symptoms wouldn't get to this extreme, the ad m...

... just screw your fellow man: Authorities say John Parsons, 57, of Oak Park stole the identity of a mentally disabled friend to pay for h...

Kevin Pho, MD makes some salient points about the implications of cutting physicians' Medicare payments in his op-ed piece in USA Today...

... just add a robot . (At least the pictures are pretty cool... Now, looking at slide 10, I don't see atrial fibrillation, so I wonder...

The next edition of Change of Shift , this week's compilation of the best of nursing's blog posts, is up over at Emergiblog. -Wes

I wonder how much money was spent to collect, collate, process and puree the hosptial mortality rates of heart attacks, pneumonia and heart...

It seems the healthcare debate has recently fallen off the political map: The continual tussle between the two presumptive presidential nom...

I'm off to places where computers can't go for the rest of the week... hiking in the Porkies . It's been a while since I've...

This week's Grand Rounds wrap-up of the best of the medical blog-o-sphere is up at the Medical Humanities Blog . -Wes

Meanwhile, back in the AstraZeneca marketing department: "Hey, Joe, I got an AWESOME idea! We've got a few hundred thousand extra ...

For electrophysiologists, the drug combinations of amiodarone (marketed as Cordarone® or Pacerone®) and simvastatin (marketed as Zocor®) is ...

When a patient complains of "left shoulder pain which began 30 minutes ago, is pulsitile and sharp, comes and goes, and is associated w...

... heart rate sensing computer mouse ... -Wes

It seems Sanofi-Aventis's amiodarone analog drug, dronedarone (marketed as Multaq&reg), was granted a stay of execution by the FDA:...

One of our EP nurses shared this photo of her pet with me this morning: Got to admire its choice of uniform, but given the weight of this bu...

Dr. Cory Franklin issues a grave warning in the editorial pages of today's Chicago Tribune : A political issue that neither Barack Obam...

This week's edition of Change of Shift , the nursing blog carnival, is up. -Wes