Dr. Wes

A truly remarkable video demonstrating a lightning fast robotic hand with incredible implications for the disabled: -Wes h/t: Boingboing.net

With the increasing push for medical records to go electronic, I continue to be amazed at the ability and speed that information gets pushed...

* bleeeeep bleeeeep bleeeeep * It was 11:57PM on the alarm clock last night. I peeled my head from the pillow and felt my heart racing from ...

The 47 year-old patient had suffered a cardiac arrest months ago, had a prolonged hospital stay and recovery, and was now being referred for...

Sad. Call it the largest broken heart ever. The old walk-through heart at the Museum of Science and Industry here in Chicago is gone : The...

... and it's not just any treadmill : The COLBERT, once simply known as T-2, is no ordinary treadmill. Engineers started with a medical ...

Are you a nerd? If so, you'll love this super-simple single-lead EKG design , facilitated by digital filters from a computer sound card...

This review from Michael Apstein, MD, a gastroenterologist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston and an assistant professor of ...

From the Chicago Tribune today: The half-dozen leading proposals in Congress would require all citizens to have health insurance, guarantee...

“There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.” - François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld The end ...

He's an exerpt from a candid video where Robin Williams discusses his rationale for choosing the type of valve replacement he received:...

One last thing before I leave on my trip, I wanted to be first to cash in on the latest internet craze: the Crasher Squirrel : Heh. -Wes

Dr. Wes will be traveling overseas beginning tomorrow afternoon and will be taking a rather lengthy blog break until next weekend. As such,...

... you report on a code team being called for toothbrush artifact . -Wes

No, it's not a wireless pacemaker . Rather, it's a pacemaker with a small radio transmitter inside that can talk to a base station ...

One of the most distasteful moments in life is walking in to a car dealership and knowing that the prices on the vehicles mean nothing relat...

From the American College of Surgeons' press release : The American College of Surgeons is deeply disturbed over the uninformed public c...

"Dear Colleague: In this era of health care reform, it has been said that when it comes to reimbursement issues, “you are either at the...

No, these things below are not Mickey Mouse ears. Designed by Pam Krieg, RN, a neonatal ICU nurse, I saw these little radiation shields in ...

Head on over to Dr. Rich at the Covert Rationing blog and enjoy this week's best of the blog-o-sphere! -Wes