Dr. Wes

Yesterday, the President and CEO of the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM), in a moment that must have been heartbreaking for him, f...

My hospital system, like many hospital and academic medical centers in America, provides an open-access journal subscription to the New En...

“Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.” - Ted Geisel (Dr. Seuss) It seems just yesterday she came to us, quiet, sil...

If you want to understand the world of professional board certification, it is important to understand the business and politics of testing ...

From theheart.org (registration required), John Mandrola, MD calls for a "time-out" for the American Board of Internal Medicine...

I just returned from the American College of Cardiology and wanted to write down a few of my 50,000-foot impressions from the meeting for, a...

“An experiment is ethical or not at its inception, it does not become ethical post hoc – ends do not justify means. There is no ethical dis...

More and more physicians are entering the social media space - so much so that even our more classic academic physician colleagues are joini...

Professional medical societies "concerned" about physician education, advocacy and quality appear to have multiplied at an alarm...

I will be attending the ACC 2014 Scientific Sessions this year in Washington, DC.  Theheart.org has a nice post covering some of the early ...

There's a new gig for doctors - as drug rep : Because they will be employees of Glaxo, the company won’t have to report payments to do...

An interesting infographic was recently posted on Sermo (with references noted at the bottom): (Click to enlarge) I found this infog...

Recently, our laboratory was performing a catheter ablation of paroxysmal atrial fibrillation in a patient with a permanent pacemaker previo...

Recently, I noted that the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS) was going to offer an ...

I have been a way from blogging for a bit - tried to clear my head a bit with a vacation skiing - left the computer at home, disconnected (a...

The ongoing controversy among US physicians over newly-implemented "Maintenance of Certification (MOC)" requirements created by t...

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...