Dr. Wes

Thanks to NPR, I was directed to an op-ed that appeared in the New York Times in October 2012 entitled " In Cancer Care, Cost Matters...

It’s been three years since the Patient Protection and Accountable Care Act (PPACA) became law.  There have been widely divergent opinions p...

Why do I keep doing this?  After all, I should know better.  It is not efficient, logical, cost-effective or even a healthy thing to do. I...

By now, the majority of America has noticed the new Windows 8 advertisement with young hipsters clicking iPad-like computer screens to a key...

A phone conference had been arranged.  They wanted to talk to me about a denial for payment on a portion of a patient's pre-authorized p...

I kid you not (sorry, Medscape registration required): At the recently held World Psychiatric Association Thematic Conference on Intersec...

You can see it in doctors' eyes now, especially after 5 pm. The spring in the step that used to be there is fading; the excitement of ...

Tuesday's warning about Zithromax causing heart irregularities reportedly came after the FDA completed its own review of a New England J...

When I see patient's with supraventricular tachycardia, we discuss the the various options for therapy: (a) conservative treatment, (b...

Via Gruntdoc , Richard Winters, MD nails healthcare management speak.  Click the button there and you can become a healthcare management ...

"The good thing about bad news - it sells." At first, it seemed like such an embarrassment.  A brand new therapy for treating...

From Massdevice.com : The company has received reports of 4 instances in which a fuse inside the subcutaneous ICD was activated inappropri...

Dr. Lisa Rosenbaum politely hits the nail on the head in today's New England Journal of Medicine : When it comes to health care, we h...

My perspective on scientific publications has been greatly affected by my experience with this blog and social media in particular.  The abi...

"Sally, we need an EP consult on Mr. Smith here. He has some trouble walking now due to pain from his multiple myeloma, but he also has...

" How broken is the US Health Care System?  Let Us Count the Ways " - NPR.org "... perhaps as many as 98,000 people, die i...

"What's the most important finding on this chest x-ray?" There he was, standing before 5 ICU residents, each peering at a ch...

"AUC," "RAND," "Reynold's Score," "modified Delphi methodology." All "harmonized" wi...

Zdogg MD has some competition from the University of Maryland School of Medicine Class of 2015 : Heh. Thanks to a cool $10 millio...

A sixty year old patient felt some palpitations and an uneasy sensation in his chest that woke him from sleep.  He noticed the rhythm persis...