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A New Way To Wash Your Hands?
Forget the debate over soap and water vs. alcohol sanitizers. Soon you may be cleaning your hands with plasma. The New York Times is reporting on research into plasma as a method of hand cleaning....
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Health Affairs’ Susan Dentzer On The Prospect Of Healthcare Reform
This week I’m attending the co-located National Medical Home Summit, National Retail Clinic Summit, and Population Health and Disease Management Colloquium here in Philly. (If only they had invited the...
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AHRQ Says It Will Take 20 Years To Close Healthcare Quality Chasm
As one would expect from such a diverse group, comparisons were a common topic at the co-located National Medical Home Summit, National Retail Clinic Summit, and Population Health and Disease...
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Steroid Use, BMI, And Risk Of Death
You might already be aware of this week’s finding if you’ve watched baseball in the past decade or so and noticed that Mark McGwire’s arms are about the circumference of the average ballplayer’s waist...
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Internal Medicine Funnies
Here’s the first of many posts from Internal Medicine 2010 in lovely Toronto, Canada. As you’d expect during a cardiology lecture, Steve Kopecky, FACP, reviewed lots of studies known by cool acronyms....
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Becoming A Doctor And An American All At Once
I [recently] attended a fascinating session offering advice to international medical graduates (IMGs) on how to fit in and succeed in U.S. medical practice. Here’s a slightly-silly example of the kind...
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Successful Care: Grandmother Knows Best
Want to know the secret to successful care of ICU patients? Think back to the advice your grandmother always gave, joked American Thoracic Society conference speaker Renee Stapleton, M.D., recently: -...
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Newsflash: TV Commercial Food Is Bad For You
We’ve been slacking in the “Medical news of the obvious” department lately. Seems like research has been either actually newsworthy or so obvious that you could spot it yourselves (for example, the...
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“Action” Movie Of A Different Sort
Feeling sorry for yourself after a long, hot week of cranky patients and insurance hassles? Maybe a glimpse of someone else’s practice will make you feel better. Especially if that doctor is alone in...
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Getting The Attention Of Patients In Younger Generations
Surely you’ve read before (perhaps even in our publication) about the challenges of Boomers and younger generations working together. You know the drill– these young’uns are good with computers but...
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A New Way To Wash Your Hands?
Forget the debate over soap and water vs. alcohol sanitizers. Soon you may be cleaning your hands with plasma. The New York Times is reporting on research into plasma as a method of hand cleaning....
View ArticleClik here to view.
Health Affairs’ Susan Dentzer On The Prospect Of Healthcare Reform
This week I’m attending the co-located National Medical Home Summit, National Retail Clinic Summit, and Population Health and Disease Management Colloquium here in Philly. (If only they had invited the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
AHRQ Says It Will Take 20 Years To Close Healthcare Quality Chasm
As one would expect from such a diverse group, comparisons were a common topic at the co-located National Medical Home Summit, National Retail Clinic Summit, and Population Health and Disease...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Steroid Use, BMI, And Risk Of Death
You might already be aware of this week’s finding if you’ve watched baseball in the past decade or so and noticed that Mark McGwire’s arms are about the circumference of the average ballplayer’s waist...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Internal Medicine Funnies
Here’s the first of many posts from Internal Medicine 2010 in lovely Toronto, Canada. As you’d expect during a cardiology lecture, Steve Kopecky, FACP, reviewed lots of studies known by cool acronyms....
View ArticleClik here to view.
Becoming A Doctor And An American All At Once
I [recently] attended a fascinating session offering advice to international medical graduates (IMGs) on how to fit in and succeed in U.S. medical practice. Here’s a slightly-silly example of the kind...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Successful Care: Grandmother Knows Best
Want to know the secret to successful care of ICU patients? Think back to the advice your grandmother always gave, joked American Thoracic Society conference speaker Renee Stapleton, M.D., recently: –...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Newsflash: TV Commercial Food Is Bad For You
We’ve been slacking in the “Medical news of the obvious” department lately. Seems like research has been either actually newsworthy or so obvious that you could spot it yourselves (for example, the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
“Action” Movie Of A Different Sort
Feeling sorry for yourself after a long, hot week of cranky patients and insurance hassles? Maybe a glimpse of someone else’s practice will make you feel better. Especially if that doctor is alone in...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Getting The Attention Of Patients In Younger Generations
Surely you’ve read before (perhaps even in our publication) about the challenges of Boomers and younger generations working together. You know the drill– these young’uns are good with computers but...
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