Dr. Wes

Hope I picked the right side.  She's so thin.  I've gotten away with this before, but you never know, do you?  I wonder if there...

... here's proof : Not sure how to get started?  Here's a little primer . -Wes

They can be strangely soothing on the way home. -Wes

I guess I've now become an "old dog" in medicine.  The residents look younger, the fellows, sharp and trim, and some of my con...

Today, a remarkable  tour de force essay on the St. Jude Medical Riata defibrillator lead recall controvery written by Edward J Schloss, MD...

He was referred for consideration of a biventricular ICD implant after a failed attempt at an outside institution. When listening to his lu...

The government is remarkably good at kicking cans down the road. This is the single reason is why government-run health care costs so much...

Robert Hauser, MD published a perspective piece in the New England Journal of Medicine today entitled "Here We Go Again — Another Fai...

This was spotted by one of our nurse practitioners vacationing in Belize: Click image to enlarge Heh. -Wes

For all the mended hearts, broken hearts, lonely hearts, sweet hearts, crazy hearts, bitter hearts, joyful and happy hearts out there, John ...

I am seeing the world of medicine change before my eyes, and I wonder where we’re going. Never before has there been more information at o...

... you work in pathology and sport this cool tattoo (as seen in the lunch line today): Click to enlarge Nice! -Wes Other tattoos men...

This week's Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) published a lengthy conflict of interest correction by Eugene Braunwald,...

What does this graph represent? Hint: you were probably on it. -Wes

It's February, and with February comes Valentine's Day, and with Valentine's Day, comes Heart Month, and with Heart Month, comes...

It's all about heart disease for the month of February and to commemorate the occassion the American Heart Association has designated to...

Sorry about the delay, but unlike most of the EKG Du Jour series of EKG's, I elected to make a separate post to explain the interesting ...

... with a " Heart Cart " that has a remarkable positive screening rate: Since implementation in 2008, Francis said more than 1,50...

Doctors are under the Sunshine Act to disclose the dollars we receive from industry: The Physician Payments Sunshine Act requires companies...

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation. - Herman Melville Medical information overload risks harming our patient...