Dr. Wes

Another cocktail encounter tonight. This time, with an accomplished researcher from one of the major medical centers here in Chicago. She ...

Now that the stimulus bill has passed and President Obama has promised another $638 billion for a health care reserve fund, perhaps we cou...

Look for clinical registries to be required for all expensive medical devices soon, despite their limitations . -Wes

"Wes, I need a pacer. This guy's temporary pacer wire isn't capturing reliably." "I'll be right in." Drivin...

I found mine within the cloud of 883 medical blog titles. (Middle of the right, upper quadrant). Kind of cool. -Wes

A new "score" to assess the clinical risk factors for the development of atrial fibrillation was published in Lancet today based ...

By now, there must be better than twenty-five "articles" in the so-called "press" about the effects that the emotion ang...

This morning, the Wall Street Journal reported : Public Citizen wrote a letter to the American Medical Association calling on the group to ...

... was published online before print in the journal Heart Rhythm yesterday: "... the hazard of Sprint Fidelis failure accelerated aft...

Excuses, excuses : "Hotels worry that if they have the (Automatic External Defibrillator) devices, which cost about $1,200 to $2,000 ea...

Boy, I never knew one of our MedTees could look so cute . -Wes PS: For those interested: here's our entire amputee section .

With the economy in the tank, look for a the web to play an increasingly important role in health care trade shows meetings. I mean, how ...

... are affecting everyone: "Doctors are noticing the trend as patients skip or defer treatments because of the troubled economy. Many...

Oh how we forget. It was under a year ago that physicians were faced with a proposed 10.1% Medicare fee cut. Fortunately, that cut was thwar...

Better hope you're not one of the unlucky ten percent . -Wes

I think I found my new favorite website: TotallyLooksLike.com -Wes h/t: Instapundit .

Just when we thought the stock market was bad, comes this news from the New York Times today: "Since last fall, many of the leading f...

Dr. Ted Feldman, Director of Interventional Cardiology at NorthShore University HealthSystem and one of the lead authors of the recently pub...

Do we need comparative effectiveness research? Lots and lots of my intelligent colleagues think so. But as usual, I am more suspect. That...

... reluctantly. But even with all the hussle and bussle in health care these days, it's nice to remember that some things haven't c...