Dr. Wes

Dear Congress: I wanted to write you to tell you how proud I am of you. You’ve worked so hard on health care reform and focusing on what mat...

... they might help preserve myocardium: 333 consecutive adult patients with a suspected first acute myocardial infarction were randomly as...

It's official. I've been asked by the ACC to help live blog portions of the ACC.10, i2 Summit in Atlanta March 14-16, 2010 that in...

Don't count on it, but it sure makes for one heck of a story : When a gunman stormed a Simi Valley dental office last summer and shot Ly...

Dr. Mike Howard - one of our plastic surgeons, is live-blogging from Haiti . Here's a sample: Looking at the historical course of cases...

Ever note lower back pain that radiates down your leg after standing at a cath lab or operating room table? Timothy Sanborn, MD, director of...

As Congress and their sycophants bicker over their current industry-sponsored 2,700-page health care bill and promise to save costs by cont...

He was a pleasant, elderly man with an automatic defibrillator installed many years ago who unfortunately developed atrial fibrillation with...

Yes folks, doctors' Medicare payments are in the best of hands : If your heart skipped a beat when you saw that January’s Correct Coding...

It's out there . It makes a cool picture, but I wonder how many medical students realize how unimportant apps like this have become to t...

The FDA issued this press release today regarding several antivirals used in combination to treat HIV that can cause pro-arrhythmia by prol...

This Christmas, I bought my wife, an unmitigated book-lover, a new Kindle 2 from Amazon. While she's a bit of a Luddite when it comes t...

Bill Clinton gets chest pain, hits the hospital, gets a few stents and, voilà, is back at work . A veritable poster child for stents. No ...

My entire medical career "PE" used to be about a pulmonary affliction where a blood clot goes to the lungs: pulmonary embolus. No...

Consenting patients for complicated procedures like atrial fibrillation ablation takes considerable time to do well and our facility might d...

I came across this picture of my desk just before we went "all in" with our electronic medical record six years ago: It was a huge...

... all in the name of satisfied customers who will hopefully live long enough to assure payment: Prostitutes in the picturesque Swiss lake...

... just infect hospital electronic medical record (EMR) systems with a worm: Computer systems at the West Middlesex University Hospital NH...

Nothing says I love you like a pile of... well, cow manure (video). If nothing else, you have to admire this farmer's creativity... -W...

Powerful magnets that can interfere with pacemakers and defibrillators can pop up in the strangest places, like dental chair headrests : A f...