Here are the top posts from the past month, based on the number of times they were viewed. 1. Two nurses face jail time for reporting a doctor to the Texas Medical Board 2. Why pregnant women should get the H1N1 flu vaccine 3. Why doctors should choose Google Android over the iPhone for medical apps 4. What having [...] Posted at KevinMD.com . Stay updated and subscribe , follow me on Twitter , or...
Originally published in HCPLive.com by Jeff Brown, MD I had the same reaction . . . shock at seeing an almost obscene claim about our profession in a national newspaper. But it got me thinking, which no doubt was its intended purpose. While we are thinking and feeling our way through this wide-ranging debate on health [...] Posted at KevinMD.com . Stay updated and subscribe , follow me on Twitter ,...
Watch what goes down with this House health care reform bill being voted on over the weekend (unless it stalls) because something very tricky is going on. President Barack Obama went up to Capitol Hill today to personally lobby for...
If you have not finished this book, do not read this book review - it will spoil it for you! Tempted is book six in the House of Night series and begins after Zoey and her friends have banished Kalona and Neferet, Zoey and Stark are both recovering, the nuns and vampires are friends, and it is clear that Stevie Rae is keeping some really bad secrets about her red vampires and a bigger secret - a...
This cartoon took FOREVER to make, complete with bouncing chocolate chip cookie and a broccoli tree, and it's pretty terrible. But it still makes me laugh. So I'm revisiting this one - The Diabetes Police video. ...
In a recent issue of Wilderness & Environmental Medicine (Volume 20, Number 2, 2009), Anne-Michelle Ruha and Steven Curry have written an article entitled “Recombinant Factor VIIa for Treatment of Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage Following Rattlesnake Envenomation.” This is a “case report,” meaning that this is a description of a particular medical event, rather than a study....
The Joint Commission has released its list of the standards that healthcare organizations found most difficult to meet in the first half of 2009. These standards will no doubt be high-priority for surveyors in the months to come, so make...
A version of this op-ed was published on October 26th, 2009 in the USA Today. President Obama has acknowledged that changes in the medical malpractice system must be considered with other health reforms, and recently ordered that pilot projects to improve the way we compensate injured patients be implemented. Reforming medical liability has historically been a source [...] Posted at KevinMD.com . Stay...
My thoughts and prayers go to the victims and their families in the Fort Hood shooting. The entire situation is tragic. I have no comment about the fact that the shooter worked as a psychiatrist. Whether or not he was a physician, his actions were appalling. The vast majority of people—psychiatrists or not—do not respond to [...]
On Wednesday I went to visit my nephew and his family. I knew I hadn't been round for a while but when I remarked on his new car he told me he'd had it for a year. I also said the pup was fairly growing... the "pup" is apparently almost three years old. I still find it hard to grasp how thick I am now, how forgetful and how out of touch I am with the world. I used to always think I was so...
Treatment with oral contraceptives may benefit premenopausal women with asthma, even if their asthma symptoms are not strongly linked to their monthly menstrual cycles, early research suggests.
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