Dr. Wes

A 60 year-old man was found obtunded, unable to ambulate or communicate at home by a house cleaning service. He was brought to the emergency...

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...

Hugh Laurie can't do it. (We need to cut back on over testing, doctor, and those pills!...) Marcus Welby can't do it. (Who? You mea...

Just a reminder: there's a little over 24 hours left to submit your entries to the US Health Care Reform Photoshop Contest where a sing...

In 2008, Dawn Dubsky was a nurse at Children's Hospital in Chicago when she took a trip to Ghana, where she contracted malaria and all i...

Who said hospitals can't have fun? Provident St. Vincent Medical Center, Oregon shows us how as they support breast cancer awareness: O...

I thought I'd share this list that was published on this blog before: I am thankful for the teenagers who are complaining about doing ch...

Prices rise : One factor that could be driving larger increases locally: Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Illinois, which historically has us...

Then: 11:30 pm - Cackling though the overhead intercom system: “Code Blue, Three East, Room 236” A thunderous herd of medical students, resi...

Here's how , courtesy of Mayo Clinic Family Medicine - Arrowhead (Arizona): The discrepancy between what Medicare pays and our cost of p...

Early US Health Care Reform Photoshop Contest entries are available to view here . (I did the one at left - sorry, it's ineligible). ...

An interesting story has developed in Missouri where a private group of cardiologists was asked to no longer see their patients at the loca...

Here's a bit of the transcript from Kathleen Sebelius, Department of Health and Human Services Secretary, speaking to the Wall Street Jo...

... this week over at Colorado Health Insurance Insider . -Wes

Should there be a premium added to physician compensation for on-call coverage after hours, or are Medicare rates enough? This appears to be...

Yikes ! "Honey, all you need to worry about is if I am going to listen to opera or Steely Dan during the procedure." -Wes P.S. I ...

Last updated 24 NOV 2009 @ 06:00 AM. Early entries for the US Health Care Reform Photoshop Contest are shown below in the order they were...

In the spirit of the upcoming holiday season and to make sure something on health care reform gets done before the end of the year, Dr. Wes...

Seems the FDA wants to know more: FDA is investigating energy levels in (automatic) external biphasic defibrillators (AEDs) with shocks ≤ 2...

A patient, recently listed for cardiac transplantation, tells his story about being rejected, then accepted, to the cardiac transplantation...