Dr. Wes

" A new roadmap for improving residents’ professional skills was released Tuesday by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Edu...

It was a very brief 15 minutes but I had arrived early.  There they were, sitting in our conference room, waiting to be interviewed for a re...

Sometimes, the best ideas aren't so straightforward: -Wes

According to this morning's Wall Street Journal, Aetna, Inc. has noticed that "the evolution of the U.S. health-insurance market w...

How should patients determine the quality of their doctor?  This is an interesting question that has now reached main stream media status ...

Most of us would agree that health care costs are too high in America.  They must be controlled or else we won’t have a sustainable health ...

Type a note. Use a shortcut. Cut and paste. Order a test. Review your tests. Every result gets a note. Release the result. ...

Thanks to the unrelenting march of regulatory affairs in medicine, the MD designator (Latin: Medicinae Doctor) has been completely devalued ...

Andrew Schlafly, attorney for the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons and the group who sued the American Board of Medical Spe...

Sometimes what we do is just cool. Cardiac electrophysiology has amazing technology at its disposal. One of these is three dimensional m...

Is the medical blog-o-sphere dying? As I surf the internet these days, I wonder. It seems to me that there are a few new blogs from time...

As part of the Physician Payment Sunshine Act ("Sunshine Act"), some medical device companies started posting physician payments o...

Recently, the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) announced "new policies to include non-internist and public members in ABIM ...

As we enter the New Year, I like to reflect on where we've been and where we're heading in medicine. By far and away, this is the mo...

"Place the palm of your hand on the palm scanner," she said.  He complied and watched the computer screen in front of her read ...

To all of the first responders Laboring in the icy night in an hour of unexpected need While their children get tucked into bed In the...

I sit before the computer screen this morning, wondering "What should I write?"  Yet as I thought about this, I realized I should ...

"As a third year medical student, I would also argue that this is creating a generation of dumb doctors. My school (average US MD sch...

The infrequent side effects of Paxil (Click to enlarge) I was just trying to look up the side effects of Paxil and was greeted to this i...

“ “A totalitarian state is in effect a theocracy, and its ruling caste, in order to keep its position, has to be thought of as infallible. ...