Monday, April 30, 2012 Faculty Blog General HSL RHH Refurbishment Library Refurb As part of the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health's Medical School redevelopment , the Health Sciences Library (HSL) at RHH is be...
Friday, April 27, 2012 MOC is stupid I am going to again bitch about the MOC. I planning on mocking the MOC. MOC, for the non-medical among us, stands for Maintenance of Certifi...
Wednesday, April 25, 2012 Results of the WARCEF trial are out; this is the largest trial to date that tries to determine whether warfarin is better than aspirin for p...
Tuesday, April 24, 2012 belimumab Benlysta genomics Human Genome Science targeted drugs Genomics Is And Will Be A Transformational Megatrend In Medical Care But The Path to Targeted Drugs Will Be Rocky At Best Medical Megatrends – Genomics Part III Genomics promises to fundamentally change much of medical care as described in the two prior posts o...
Thursday, April 19, 2012 Little, slimy, deadly. The article about the hazards of raw oysters really hit home.... Of course, I'm not gonna stop eating them. http://www.acpinternist.org/...
3:57 AM Don't drop them... Mom's having surgery soon at Mecca. I've got vacation scheduled so I can be there. She's now 3 years out from diagnosis, a smidg...
Wednesday, April 18, 2012 Critical care Fluid balance in ARDS Here are 2 articles from Journal Club, related to management of fluid/volume status in ARDS: http://www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1056/NEJMoa06189...
Tuesday, April 17, 2012 genomics medical megatrends Genomics – a Revolution in Medicine – Part 2 In the previous post I discussed the field of pharmacogenomics. Today I will focus on Disease classification Disease prognostication Early a...
Thursday, April 12, 2012 Gram's stain Ever ask yourself, "What the hell is a "gram-variable coccobacillus"?" Read this article: http://labmed.ascpjournals.org...
Wednesday, April 11, 2012 A trend I can do without: Taking pictures of (insert bodily fluid output) on your cell phone. Trust me, I really don't want to see your mucus plug floating in you...
Tuesday, April 10, 2012 genomics pharmacogenomics Genomics– a Revolution in Medicine - Part I My last post was about the coming medical megatrends that will have transformative implications for medical practice. To continue the discus...
11:42 AM infectious diseases ID article Here is an article from Dr Bariola, who is the head of the Antibiotic Stewardship program at UAMS. http://www.the-hospitalist.org/details/ar...
Sunday, April 8, 2012 Oops... If you are showing your home...having a textbook titled "Vaginal Surgery" next to the tub PROBABLY isn't the best thing to hav...
Friday, April 6, 2012 Advances Coming in Medical Science That Will Have a High Impact There are a series of medical megatrends outlined in my book The Future of Medicine – Megatrends in Healthcare that will profoundly affect h...
Thursday, April 5, 2012 Don't just do something, stand there! Medical societies are trying to put together a list of tests that are "over-ordered", in an attempt to offset the huge increase in...
Monday, April 2, 2012 Pulmonary PE management interesting article about mgmt of submassive PE: http://circ.ahajournals.org/content/122/11/1124.full