Dr. Wes

Oh, the wonders of Apple's iOS8!  Now there's no excuse for slow room turnovers: Yeah, I can see all kinds of applications for ...

These days, pacemakers and defibrillators are often interrogated via a home-monitoring system that uploads information contained in the imp...

Recently, David H. Johnson, MD , Chair of the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) Board of Directors and Internal Medicine Chairman ...

After you've written on a blog for a long time, you begin to ask yourself why.  Oh sure, there are the great opportunities for a single ...

Installing a permanent pacemaker or defibrillator has become commonplace event in cardiology these days.  These devices implanted in a patie...

Cybernetics, the scientific study of control and communication in the animal and the machine, used to be the stuff of science fiction.  To...

As I begin another year teaching EKG's to our new residents, I find I am increasingly asking myself "Where to teach?" I do n...

He left a little early to stop by the cath lab to see his patient before her procedure.  Cordial "Hello's" and "Good morn...

CHICAGO - Citing mounting health care costs, electronic note bloat, and concerns with the quality and quality of Big Data, IBM, Apple, and ...

This must-read paper from Drs Centor, Fleming and Moyer was recently published in the Annals of Internal Medicine . While it does not pert...

A few from above, from Saurabh Jha, MD (Twitter: @roguerad ): The biggest trade-off is between a constitutional republic, with all its che...

"Dad, you have the nicest patients!" She was right, of course. Daughters that you bring to work with you to shadow for a day can...

From Medscape : The same article quotes the average resident salary as $55,300.  The actual "take-home"pay for residents is a...

From the 5 Aug 2014 issue of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology (JACC): "Note: There is evidence that the ABIM ha...

With the  increasing failure rate of first-time test takers of the American Board of Medical Specialties' Maintenance of Certification ...

Yesterday, I noticed a tweet from @angioplastyorg announcing that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will be this year's keyno...

"Oh my God, I can't believe how complicated the American Board of Medical Specialties and the American Board of Internal Medicine h...

This morning the American Board of Medical Specialties' (ABMS) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program debate reached a larger mainst...

Do you want to "raise awareness" of how physician quality and value information impacts health care decision making?   Do you want...

The dark underbelly of health care is becoming all too visible now. Fresh faces in neatly pressed white coats are in the halls.  Eager.  E...