Dr. Wes

Either we're not paying our cardiology fellows enough, or they have too way much time on their hands : Consulting Services: As a membe...

She came to me for a refill for metoprolol succinate (Toprol XL) at $60.61 for 50 tablets (slower release, taken once daily). Note that th...

... because if you don't predict the unpredictable, they sue : A doctor failed to see that former Tompkins County District Attorney Geo...

Years ago, when I was indoctrinated as a fellow in to American College of Cardiology, Dick Cheney - then a former secretary of state, was th...

From the Chicago Tribune : Get multiple quotes in writing. Before your procedure, shop around to various doctors to find out how much they c...

Dr. Wes with Colleagues and Friends Cardiology Fellowship Graduation, National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, MD 1993 I'm not sure ther...

It seems the FDA is looking for input on how drug companies explain the side effects of their drugs in direct-to-consumer advertising. But ...

As doctors increasingly become physician-employees, there's no longer a need to share resources with University specialists: Three Univ...

... and even a bit creative when you've misplaced your reading glasses: Click image to enlarge -Wes

It appears Cook County has a plan to make their struggling health care system solvent - close hospitals : Most controversial in the new stra...

... it can make some pretty dramatic video . Here's what happened in Chicago last evening: simultaneous strikes of (left to right) The ...

For medical students and others who want to see some nice animations of various forms of supraventricular tachycardias (SVT) in living color...

Want a pacemaker or defibrillator on your dying UnitedHealthcare patient with complete heart block? Sorry, in many states you must first as...

Get your mind out of the gutter. We're talking about defibrillators here. There's a great picture comparing the size of implantabl...

Remember "cooties" in grade school? You know, the germs or disease that girls gave boys or boys gave girls in grade school if th...

I am not a finance guy, but was struck by what I read in the New York Times this morning: Despite its pension reform, Illinois is still in ...

It's rainy outside. The dog's hungry and needs to be let out. I still need to shave and shower. And yes, I'm going to work today...

It's been several months since the black box warning on clopidogrel (Plavix) appeared and most cardiologists I know have not changed th...

Looks like they picked heads - 40-60 of 'em: Gruesome and equally bizarre cargo is causing some serious controversy after a Southwest A...

In a "study" that is unlikely to ever be repeated again, we find that echocardiogram technicians are pretty good at screening norm...