Dr. Wes

It has been a busy year for this blog and for doctors in general.  While the number of posts have dwindled compared to my earlier experience...

To every person who finds themselves sick or alone this holiday season. To the many caregivers who toil without recognition this day and the...

In every medical journal, authors must disclose all conflict of interests that might exist to the editors of that journal as a condition of ...

Is it "medically professional" for a non-profit organization to use physician testing fees to "choose wisely" a $2.3 mi...

From the New York Times today: "To rely solely on memory, especially for rarer illnesses or complicated patients, would be malpracti...

As I watch the business world's fascination with the electronic medical record (EMR) and all of the Big Data that it accumulates, I see ...

The phone rang one evening and a pleasant voice was on the other end.  "Hi, my name is nurse So-and-so and I'm the educational coor...

Thanks for C. Michael Gibson, MD for hosting an interview with me on my concerns with the American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) / Ame...

The following is a guest post by J. Rod Gimbel, MD , a cardiac electrophysiologist from Knoxville, TN who has written extensively on the iss...

(Click image to enlarge) Found this picture today in my basement from around 1996 when I has a staff cardiologist/cardiac electrophysiol...

"I was teaching a class at Yale on the literature of friendship. One day we got around to talking about the importance of being alone....

Another day, another pacemaker, at least so it seemed at first. The usual greeting the patient, answering the last questions, consent sign...

In 1990 the American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) and the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) changed their requirements for p...

Nice to see front-line health care workers finding their voice. I wonder what signs our health care bureaucrats and regulators would h...

He had called the other day to update me up on his condition.  He did not sound upset, but resolute.  "They offered me peritoneal dialy...