Dr. Wes

Steve Dahl, from the Chicago Tribune , gives us the run down: I was warned in advance that "Avatar" is a very long and intense mo...

After Northwestern Memorial Healthcare closed its acquisition of Lake Forest Hospital in the posh northern suburbs of Chicago this past Fri...

It seems Pfizer has won the marketing prize : Rating pharma reps for the market researcher SDI ( press release here ), cardiologists named P...

Non-compete clauses are familiar to the business community as a means to prevent a former employee from using corporate trade secrets to com...

Could magnetometers replace EKGs ? The portable magnetometer, invented by scientists at the University of Leeds, England, measures minute fl...

Now that the health care bill has been soundly defeated by the election of a single individual to the Senate, the Democratic party is fleein...

... at least for one doctor : Lickteig runs a clothing store on eBay, where she's a "Gold PowerSeller," ranking among the top ...

The Los Angeles Times had an earlier starter piece on hospice care recently with some remarkable figures: Over the last 25 years, the numb...

A must-read from the USNS Comfort , the US Navy's hospital ship based in Baltimore and now in Haiti: We don’t have our Marine combat ca...

... that she was holding my wife (on the right) in her arms: Barbara Geary Goulet 5 October 1924 - 24 Jan 2010 "And ever has it been kn...

It's the fastest growing "specialty" service in medicine: hospitalist medicine. These are the doctors who limit their practic...

... medical institutions might not make payroll : "I would describe bankruptcy as the inability to pay one's bills," says Jim ...

With the stunning election of the Republican Scott Brown from Massachusetts last evening, the pundits are awash in analysis and retrospectio...

In Brown vs. Board of Education - Brown won In Brown vs Missisipi - Brown won In Brown vs. Coakley ? Hmmm. I'm not sure, but at leas...

Thought I'd spread the link-love to Dr. John Mandrola, another fellow cardiac electrophysiologist from Louisville, KY who has been brave...

In a continuing effort to drive a stake though the doctor-patient relationship, insurers are now turning to doctors to serve as their invest...

Click image to enlarge Why someone would want to do this , I haven't a clue. Swaroup Anand, 23, from Bangalore, is fully conscious as he...

Click image to enlarge The above is a retouched photograph of an 82 year old patient's chest x-ray with a pacemaker and pneumonia that h...

Okay, medical blog-o-sphere, pressing news has arrived that Lady Gaga had to cancel her concert at Purdue University due to an acute onset ...

... it only took a little over 16 seconds . -Wes