Dr. Wes

Sid Schwab, MD, a surgeon with a remarkable skill as a writer and long-time author of  Surgeonsblog  (a favorite of mine in my early years a...

He looked ahead, seeing his feet on the hearth. There was smoke rising from one of the three logs, and he marveled at the small flicker of ...

You can't make this stuff up: look what the 800 number for Heathcare.gov 's information hotline spells . Goodness! This can'...

The following is a case study intended for folks who look at defibrillator recordings.  If you find it interesting, great.  If you have no ...

I continue to study for my third ABIM re-certifications in both cardiovascular disease and cardiac electrophysiology. In preparation for t...

Keeping a blog, I feel like a dinosaur, but I do it because it's a place I can return to to find a thought. I think, I write, I put so...

A piece recently appeared in the New York Times entitled "Who Will Heal the Doctors?" The piece is written by Donald Borstein a...

Graham crackers. For years they have been an on-call snack staple for young doctors in training throughout the United States.  These lit...

As seen a Boston Logan airport this weekend: Welcome to the New Health Care (Click to enlarge) As of 10:15 pm on 30 Sep 2013, the of...

Recently, an envelope arrived for me containing an advertisement from Mercedes-Benz: Mercedes Benz Offer (Click to enlarge) The advert...

This past week I sat for my third board review course in anticipation of my upcoming third EP board recertification. It was a well attend...

They say a picture is worth that thousand words, but nowhere is this more true than with a new, free, iPhone app called Shadow Puppet that ...

Three years ago, in the midst of all that was happening with health care reform, I thought about if I'd ever recommend medicine to my da...

Two days ago, I was directed to a piece entitled " The Strategy That Will Fix Healthcare " from the October issue of Harvard Busin...

From Marilyn M. Singleton, M.D., J.D. : “ Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, an...

After George W. Bush's recent controvertial stent placement, news organizations were hot to jump on the media buzz created by a former P...

Good scientific writing is hard to find, but sometimes good writers find scientific writing.  Such is the case with Edward J. Schloss, MD,...

I will be sparsely interacting with the internet as I take my last child off to college this week.  It's a strange time - one where the ...

Another seemingly harmless bureaucratic initiative aimed at physicians sunk its taproot deep in the daily workings of medicine this month. ...

It's always the same: It's the fifth hour of the procedure. As your ankles ache and the perspiration drips beneath your lead, you s...