Dr. Wes

Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) displayed it's enmeshed ties with the American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS), a p...

Be careful when hoping for "free" preventative care. From the Charlotte Observer : I have learned since that it’s not unusual to...

With the recent heavy marketing of the relatively new novel oral anticoagulants dabigatran, rivaroxaban, and apixaban, a new marketing phras...

On 29 January 2014, St. Jude Medical issued a "Dear Colleague" letter regarding their review of incident reports on older-model p...

One week's worth of drug letters Now that a new year has come and gone, I have been swamped with letters from pharmacy benefit manag...

Recently, the US Department of Justice  levied  a 40 million dollar fine against CareFusion, makers of ChloraPrep® surgical skin antiseptic ...

An important read from The Atlantic : With each passing year, Big Med is following Big Law. Physicians, medical schools, and hospitals ...

Major changes are underway for one of the signature comparative effectiveness research trials promoted by government interests on Capitol Hi...

By now the world has heard the remarkable news: that CVS Caremark will no longer be selling its tobacco products in any of its stores.  Lock...

When leaders of public universities that receive their income from both tax payers and private industry interests, ethical lines become blur...

February, in case you haven't noticed, is "Heart Month" full of associations with Valentine's Day, love, peace and tranqui...

" 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...